This report provides an overview of resource efficiency policies and instruments in 31 member and cooperating countries … collect, analyse and disseminate information about national experiences in developing and implementing resource efficiency … efficiency and explores similarities and differences in policies, strategies, indicators and targets, policy drivers and …

was organised with a view to implementing an authentication method related to the distinction of Basmati rice eligible for … import duty exemption from other rice varieties. The aim of the workshop was to discuss whether the method under development …

improving the quality and productivity of work could lead to more as well as better jobs. This study is based on 23 case studies …

low price elasticity stems from distribution services, intensive in local inputs, which drive a wedge between producer and … the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …

firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also, decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms are carried out. The … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …

Slovakia is engaged in an ambitious reform process which has the potential to quicken productivity growth, increase the … planned reductions in employment costs in the low end of the market, as well as by the fundamental tax reforms raising the …

research and development on the determinants of productivity gaps between the current EU-15 and accession states in central and … specialisation patterns for the explanation of observed productivity gaps and for the projection of future potentials of productivity … growth in central and eastern Europe. For the aggregated level, analysis determines the share of national productivity gaps …