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Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of the fastest growing economic sectors, responsible for multitude of impacts, both positive and negative, on people's lives and on the environment. Simple...

This summary paper sketches upon the extent to which composite indicators (CIs) can effectively underpin the development of data-driven narratives for policy consumption. An attempt is made to summarise...

Global sensitivity analysis offers a set of tools tailored to the impact assessment of certain assumptions on a model¿s output. A recent book on the topic covers those issues. Given...

Composite indicators are very common in economic and business statistics for benchmarking the relative progress of countries in a variety of policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development...

It has been often stated that European growth has been disappointing during the past three decades, remaining persistently lower than in the United States and this is to be...

In the Knowledge-based Economy conceptual framework that was developed by MERIT a total of 115 individual indicators have been selected to measure the sub-dimensions of the KBE. The high number of individual...

An assessment of the robustness of the 2008EPI results requires the evaluation of uncertainties underlying the index and the sensitivity of the country scores and rankings to the methodological choices made during the development of the Index. To test...

This publication analyses participation patterns in lifelong learning in the European countries. It describes the European political context in the field of lifelong learning and discusses the main monitoring issues...

The publication is the scientific report of the second workshop organized in this field in East Africa. The initial objectives of the workshop were: - to verify the state of the art and progress made since the first...

Quantitative isotopic 13 C NMR at natural abundance has been used to determine the site-by-site 13 C/12 C ratios in vanillin and a number of related compounds...