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The Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) reflects the Commission's political will to recognize the central role of SMEs in the EU economy. The calculation of 2012 SBA principles has...

This JRC 2010 SOF report represents the collaborative effort of over 100 individuals from a diversity of institutions and the forestry administrations of the Central African countries.

In the immediate aftermath of the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010, a joint work for the estimation of damage to the building stock based on aerial images was carried out by the United...

This report on Research Excellence is the deliverable of the third work package (WP3) of the feasibility study ‘ERA MONITORING’, financed by DG RTD. The objective of the work package was to explore...

The assessment of conceptual and statistical coherence of the Global Innovation Index (GII) and the estimation of the impact of modelling assumptions on a country’s performance are necessary steps to ensure the transparency and reliability...

This academic article by D.C. Miller, A. Agrawal and J.T. Roberts (2013) presents the results of a comprehensive assessment of official donor assistance for biodiversity during 1980–2008, using...

This study, prepared by external experts (2012), examines potential interventions to promote the involvement of the private sector in biodiversity financing, including through compliance markets such as biodiversity...

In 2009, two epidemiologists, Wilkinson and Pickett, published a book entitled “The Spirit Level, Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better” in which...

The present review of design methods for sensitivity analysis is limited to a number of best practices selected by the authors as particularly suited to settings often encountered in sensitivity analysis. The case...

The objective of this study is to provide a technical overview of the main simulation tools that are used for the projections of future developments in long term care systems in developed countries. The main...