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EU environmental governance: Uncomplicated and predictable policy making? By Jenny Fairbrass and Andrew Jordan

Fairbrass, Jenny; Jordan, Andrew - 2002

Based on studies of the reform of the European Union's (EU's) structural funding programmes, some scholars consider the EU to be a disordered, complex and multi-layered polity. According to such a perspective, shifting and contested power relationships in the EU, resulting in the dispersal of...

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Coordinating European Union environmental policy: Shifting from passive to active coordination

Jordan, Andrew; Schout, Adriaan; Zito, Anthony R - 2004

(EU). The integration (or mainstreaming) of environmental objectives into non environmental policies such as agriculture … implementation of environmental policy integration (EPI) has not yet matched these ambitions. One of the main problems is that EPI … has been seen as a macro problem of drafting sweeping statements and writing long term integration strategies. The need to …

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Limits to CBA in UK and European environmental policy: Retrospects & future prospects

Turner, R. Kerry - 2006

This paper reviews the contemporary debate and the now long standing role of CBA in UK and European environmental policy appraisal and looks forward to possible future applications. The position taken is that despite its limitations CBA still has an important part to play in environmental policy...

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Coordinated European governance: Self organising or centrally steered?

Schout, Adriaan; Jordan, Andrew - 2003

-led steering. Drawing upon an empirical study of environmental policy integration (EPI) in the EU, this article shows that this …

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Has governance eclipsed government? Patterns if environmental instrument selection and use in eight states and the EU

Jordan, Andrew; Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W.; Zito, Anthony R - 2003

Abstract Governance is a concept in good currency, but it is often used very imprecisely. In particular, there are precious few detailed empirical analyses of the precise extent to which environmental governance has eclipsed environmental government. This paper explores the governance transition...

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Adjusting to bilateral trade liberalisation under an EPA: Evidence for Mauritius

Milner, Chris; Morrissey, Oliver; Zgovu, Evious - 2007

This paper estimates the impact and adjustment costs for Mauritius of eliminating tariffs on imports from the EU under an EPA, considering trade, revenue, welfare, production and employment effects, and considering the potential benefit of preserving preferential access to the EU market....

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The impact of economic partnership agreements on ACP agriculture imports and welfare

Morrissey, Oliver; Zgovu, Evious - 2007

This paper estimates the impact on a sample of 36 ACP countries of eliminating tariffs on agricultural imports from the EU under EPAs, considering trade, welfare and revenue effects. Even assuming ‘immediate’ complete elimination of all tariffs on agriculture imports from the EU, and when...

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Subjective well-being and the duration of aggregate unemployment in Europe

Ochsen, Carsten - 2008

This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects individual well-being. Two hypotheses are provided to explain how the shares of short-term (up to 3 months) and long-term (more than 1 year) unemployed people could affect the well-being of the employed...

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The Open Method of Co-ordination on Pensions - An Economic Analysis of its Effects on Pension Reforms

Eckardt, Martina - 2003

This paper analyses the potential effects of the open method of co-ordination on pension reforms in the European Union from an economic point of view. The main results are: (1) For the first time, the Commission formally participates in the input of pension policy-formation of the member states,...

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Schattenwirtschaft und Messung des Wirtschaftswachstums

Braakmann, Albert - 2004

Trägt die Schattenwirtschaft auch zum Wirtschaftswachstum bei ist eine häufig gestellte Fra-gen, die hier beleuchtet werden soll. Das Wirtschaftswachstum wird üblicherweise anhand der Veränderungsrate des Bruttoinlandsproduktes gemessen, einer statistischen Kenngröße für die...

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