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The Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Italy) has undertaken for a third consecutive year, upon invitation of the WJP, a thorough...

In response to the need for further clarifications concerning the emerging concept of the “bio-economy”, the present study scrutinizes this concept in order to better delineate its analytical scope. It also...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International measures perceptions of corruption in the public sector in different countries around the world. Upon invitation of the CPI team, the JRC...

The JRC analysis on the Sustainable Society Index (SSI), conducted upon request of the SSI developers, was based on an in-house quality control process that aims to ensure the transparency...

The document presents an overview of some popular risk-related and resilience-related composite indicators and ratings that are currently available in the literature. The description of these indices is taken directly from the author...

The turnover of the EU agri-food sector overtops 2,000 billion Euros a year and employs roughly 22 millions workers. The focus of this paper is on the sectors directly linked to agricultural...

In the past, eAssessment focused on increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of test administration; improving the validity and reliability of test scores; and making a greater range of test formats susceptible to automatic...

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission operationally monitors semi-arid countries using Earth Observation (EO) systems. This contribution describes the application of a new method for assessing...

The European agri-food and other bio-based sectors exceed 2 000 billion euros a year in turnover and employ roughly 22 million workers. This paper adopts an inclusive...

This paper provides a geographical assessment of potential bioenergy production in the European Union from residues of eight agricultural crops (wheat,barley,rye,oat,maize,rice,rapeseed and sunflower).The evaluation is geographically explicit at the scale of1...