This paper presents a feasibility assessment to support Portugal in developing and piloting an international tourism demand-forecasting model. It provides a review of seven types of forecasting methods based on relevant strengths and limitations including data needs, accuracy, complexity,...

This guide presents the analytical underpinnings and a manual for the Public Debt Dynamics Tool with Gross Financing Needs (DDT_GFN), an extension of the Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT). The DDT projects public debt as percent of GDP under a baseline and alternative scenarios. The DDT_GFN...

Cette quatrième édition du Guide de style de l'OCDE présente les règles et conventions à utiliser pour rédiger des contenus à l'OCDE. Elle est conçue pour aider les auteurs et autrices, éditeurs et éditrices à produire des contenus cohérents et de qualité, de manière à trouver un...

This report provides a guide for assessing the hydromorphological quality of natural and artificial lake water bodies in accordance with the requirement of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). First, 60 metrics are described for characterizing the mandatory lake hydromorphological quality...

Better implementation of EU policies and programmes could save EU taxpayers and businesses billions of euros every year. Insufficient administrative capacity can lead to problems in implementation, especially when necessary competences - knowledge, skills and attitudes - are inadequate or...

This guide is intended to provide a set of principles for EURLs for public health on how to plan, coordinate, and implement EU-level EQAs for public health microbiology laboratories. This document is not intended to offer comprehensive technical guidance on the general implementation of EQAs....

Great efforts in biotechnology are being made to reduce the use of fossil fuels and to drive a transition toward a bioeconomy. However, these early-stage technical concepts also carry sustainability risks at ecological, social and economic levels due to large-scale biomass flows when scaled to...

Multiple lines of research aim to quantify the economic impacts of climate change, including through reduced-form and structural approaches. We show that the effects of climate change on economic activity depend on changes in weather across time and space: changes in contemporary weather have...