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Security, Risk and Human Rights: A Vanishing Relationship?
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In contrast to many studies that link the weakening of human rights to the post-September 11th counter-terrorism policies, this paper seeks to attribute it to the gradual disappearance of the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Market Dynamics In Supply Chains: The Impact Of Globalization And Consolidation On Food Companies~ Mark-Ups
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailers' market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Innovative Approaches To EU Blending Mechanisms For Development Finance
May 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The European Union is strongly committed to fulfilling the Aid Effectiveness goals of the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action, as well as the European Code of Conduct on Division of...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
The EU's Response To The Financial Crisis: A Mid-Term Review
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Two years after the London G-20, the EU is making good progress in delivering upon the commitments undertaken to be implemented by the 2013 target date. Important steps have been taken on the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financial Stability: 'Collective Responsibility' Will Not Work
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Is the 'Euro crisis' closer to a resolution? Europe's leaders have promised to find by the end of this month a comprehensive package, not only to end this crisis, but also to preserve the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Has The Financial Crisis Shattered Citizens' Trust In National And European Governmental Institutions?
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis has differently affected trust in national and European governmental institutions. The authors' paper analyzes the determinants of trust in national and European institutions...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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Comparing EU And US Responses To The Financial Crisis
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since 2003, the EU and the US have conducted a vibrant regulatory dialogue on financial regulation, but domestic priorities seem to have taken precedence in response to the financial crisis. This...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Overcoming Too-Big-To-Fail A Regulatory Framework To Limit Moral Hazard And Free Riding In The Financial Sector
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the financial crisis subsides, the new regulatory structure for the financial system is starting to take shape, with a number of legislative proposals already tabled, and even approved, in the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financial Stability Beyond Greece: Making The Most Of The European Stabilisation Mechanism
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In his seminal work on international financial crises, Larry Summers wrote that policy-makers facing a crisis tend to go through a process reminiscent of the five stages of grief. The process...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
From National To European Regulation: Towards European Financial Supervisory Authorities
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Financial reform is needed now in the EU not only to reduce the likelihood of another financial crisis in the coming years but also to reinforce the internal market. A primary financial as well as...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Is Financial Failure An Option In The EU?
May 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The euro area confronts a fundamental crisis. The European Council of Ministers had to promise hundreds of billions of euros to its financially imperiled member countries, even though the European...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
When Financial Markets Force Too Much Austerity
May 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
After the eruption of the financial crisis, there was a general consensus that financial markets and rating agencies had singularly failed in giving the right incentives to investors and...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Europe 2020 And The Financial System: Smaller Is Beautiful
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Meeting Europe's 2020 objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is even more of a challenge for the financial sector than for the EU as a whole. Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
The Financial Crisis And Citizen Trust In The European Central Bank
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Trust in the ECB, as measured by the standard Eurobarometer (and other) surveys has fallen to an unprecedented low - especially in the larger euro area countries. The authors find that up to the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Has The Financial Crisis Spurred Demand For Stronger State Regulation?
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses whether the financial crisis has affected citizens' confidence in the free market economy and whether it has triggered citizens' demand for a free market economy with stronger...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Bank State Aid In The Financial Crisis: Fragmentation Or Level Playing Field?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has posed an enormous challenge for the EU's state aid regime. Conceived to ensure a level playing field in the single market, the scheme also had to show that it could be...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Negotiating Around Tradeoffs: Alternative Institutional Designs For Climate Finance
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Securing a credible pool of climate finance is one of the lynchpins for successful negotiations in the climate regime. Several initiatives are already underway and more are being planned. However,...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
The Transformational Impact Of EMU And The Global Financial Crisis
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The headwinds facing the euro area are many and substantial: there is no pretence of denial. While most attention is correctly devoted to the size of rescue packages for some countries and the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Warning: Rating Agencies May Be Harmful To Your (Financial) Health
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Standard & Poor's has downgraded Greece, Portugal and Spain and has warned Ireland that it might suffer a similar fate. Do I hear this right? Is S&P still in the business of producing risk...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Collapse In Eastern Europe? The Rationale For A European Financial Stability Fund
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
As if core Europe did not have enough problems of its own, a new threat has arisen: the collapse of the European periphery. The deteriorating foreign exchange and financial conditions of satellite...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
The Strategic Consequences Of The Global Financial And Economic Crisis
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This 31st session of the European Security Forum on the strategic consequences of the global economic and financial crisis took place on 20 February 2009, at a time when the crisis seemed still to...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
The Financing Of The Global Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF)
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an effort to address the financing gap for clean energy projects in developing countries, the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) was set up in late 2008 as an...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
The Effects Of The Financial Crisis On Systemic Trust
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis had a significant impact on the levels of trust that citizens place in the system and its institutions. Recent data from Eurobarometer show a significant fall in confidence on...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Who Can Be Trusted After The Financial Crisis?
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has severely damaged citizens' trust in public institutions, especially the confidence that European citizens invest in the European institutions. Eurobarometer surveys show,...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Finance And The Macro-economy: The Politics Of Regulatory Reform In Europe
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes major changes in the regulation of the financial sector in Europe over the last three decades. Focusing on the pattern of change across five countries (Britain, France,...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
It's High Time To Create A Truly European System Of Financial Supervisors
June 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Eight years after it created the Lamfalussy Committee, the French Presidency of the EU Council would in its new tenure be well advised to set up a Committee of wise men to make proposals on...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financial Impacts Of Climate Change: Implications For The EU Budget
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on the financial resources needed to fight global climate change and the implications for the EU budget. The authors apply four different methodologies to estimate global...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Climate Change Policy After The Financial Crisis: The Latest Excuse For A New Round Of State Aid?
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has called into question the basic assumptions on the future course of many policies. This is no different for climate change. Increasingly people ask how the financial crisis...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financial Impacts Of Climate Change: What Scale Of Resources Is Required?
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper summarises various estimates of the financial impacts of climate change. It differentiates between studies referring to incremental costs (UNFCCC, World Bank, Oxfam, UNDP, OIES) and...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financing Adaptation To Climate Change: Issues And Priorities
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Bali Action Plan, agreed in December 2007, launched a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financing Climate Change Bailing Out The Environment In The Long-Term May Be Just As Important As Bailing Out Financial Markets Now
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In response to the current financial crisis, the US Congress reached agreement last week over a $700 billion (?492 billion) state fund to buy 'Bad' banking debts - so-called 'Toxic assets' - with...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Financing Mitigation And Adaptation: Where Should The Funds Come From And How Should They Be Delivered?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The additional funding for mitigation and adaptation will most likely come from private investments on the condition that domestic policies and policies succeed in shifting investment flows. A...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
What Next For Europe's Financial Markets?
October 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
What began as a 'Subprime' crisis in the US has clearly mutated into a crisis of financial markets around the globe. Why did this happen? The answer lies in the evolution of the European banking...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
A Call For A European Financial Stability Fund
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why is the euro plunging against the dollar and the yen? Why are European banks coming under renewed pressure? Should the emerging financial and foreign exchange crisis of countries gravitating...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Concrete Steps Towards More Integrated Financial Oversight: The EU's Policy Response To The Crisis
September 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Aquantum step needs to be taken to upgrade and adapt the structure of financial oversight in the EU. The financial crisis exposed dangerous weaknesses in the regulatory and oversight structure...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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The Future Of Europe's Financial Centres
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The growth enjoyed by Europe's financial sector in recent years rendered the question of the future of its financial centres almost superfluous. It seemed as if many financial centres would...
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The Future Of Europe's Financial Centres
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The growth enjoyed by Europe's financial sector in recent years rendered the question of the future of its financial centres almost superfluous. It seemed as if many financial centres would...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Concrete Steps Towards More Integrated Financial Oversight: The EU's Policy Response To The Crisis
September 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Aquantum step needs to be taken to upgrade and adapt the structure of financial oversight in the EU. The financial crisis exposed dangerous weaknesses in the regulatory and oversight structure...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
A Call For A European Financial Stability Fund
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why is the euro plunging against the dollar and the yen? Why are European banks coming under renewed pressure? Should the emerging financial and foreign exchange crisis of countries gravitating...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
What Next For Europe's Financial Markets?
October 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
What began as a 'Subprime' crisis in the US has clearly mutated into a crisis of financial markets around the globe. Why did this happen? The answer lies in the evolution of the European banking...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financing Mitigation And Adaptation: Where Should The Funds Come From And How Should They Be Delivered?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The additional funding for mitigation and adaptation will most likely come from private investments on the condition that domestic policies and policies succeed in shifting investment flows. A...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financing Climate Change Bailing Out The Environment In The Long-Term May Be Just As Important As Bailing Out Financial Markets Now
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In response to the current financial crisis, the US Congress reached agreement last week over a $700 billion (?492 billion) state fund to buy 'Bad' banking debts - so-called 'Toxic assets' - with...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financing Adaptation To Climate Change: Issues And Priorities
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Bali Action Plan, agreed in December 2007, launched a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financial Impacts Of Climate Change: What Scale Of Resources Is Required?
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper summarises various estimates of the financial impacts of climate change. It differentiates between studies referring to incremental costs (UNFCCC, World Bank, Oxfam, UNDP, OIES) and...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Climate Change Policy After The Financial Crisis: The Latest Excuse For A New Round Of State Aid?
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has called into question the basic assumptions on the future course of many policies. This is no different for climate change. Increasingly people ask how the financial crisis...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financial Impacts Of Climate Change: Implications For The EU Budget
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on the financial resources needed to fight global climate change and the implications for the EU budget. The authors apply four different methodologies to estimate global...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
It's High Time To Create A Truly European System Of Financial Supervisors
June 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Eight years after it created the Lamfalussy Committee, the French Presidency of the EU Council would in its new tenure be well advised to set up a Committee of wise men to make proposals on...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Finance And The Macro-economy: The Politics Of Regulatory Reform In Europe
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes major changes in the regulation of the financial sector in Europe over the last three decades. Focusing on the pattern of change across five countries (Britain, France,...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Who Can Be Trusted After The Financial Crisis?
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has severely damaged citizens' trust in public institutions, especially the confidence that European citizens invest in the European institutions. Eurobarometer surveys show,...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
The Effects Of The Financial Crisis On Systemic Trust
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis had a significant impact on the levels of trust that citizens place in the system and its institutions. Recent data from Eurobarometer show a significant fall in confidence on...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
The Financing Of The Global Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF)
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an effort to address the financing gap for clean energy projects in developing countries, the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) was set up in late 2008 as an...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
The Strategic Consequences Of The Global Financial And Economic Crisis
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This 31st session of the European Security Forum on the strategic consequences of the global economic and financial crisis took place on 20 February 2009, at a time when the crisis seemed still to...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Collapse In Eastern Europe? The Rationale For A European Financial Stability Fund
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
As if core Europe did not have enough problems of its own, a new threat has arisen: the collapse of the European periphery. The deteriorating foreign exchange and financial conditions of satellite...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Warning: Rating Agencies May Be Harmful To Your (Financial) Health
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Standard & Poor's has downgraded Greece, Portugal and Spain and has warned Ireland that it might suffer a similar fate. Do I hear this right? Is S&P still in the business of producing risk...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
The Transformational Impact Of EMU And The Global Financial Crisis
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The headwinds facing the euro area are many and substantial: there is no pretence of denial. While most attention is correctly devoted to the size of rescue packages for some countries and the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Negotiating Around Tradeoffs: Alternative Institutional Designs For Climate Finance
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Securing a credible pool of climate finance is one of the lynchpins for successful negotiations in the climate regime. Several initiatives are already underway and more are being planned. However,...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Bank State Aid In The Financial Crisis: Fragmentation Or Level Playing Field?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has posed an enormous challenge for the EU's state aid regime. Conceived to ensure a level playing field in the single market, the scheme also had to show that it could be...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Has The Financial Crisis Spurred Demand For Stronger State Regulation?
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses whether the financial crisis has affected citizens' confidence in the free market economy and whether it has triggered citizens' demand for a free market economy with stronger...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
The Financial Crisis And Citizen Trust In The European Central Bank
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Trust in the ECB, as measured by the standard Eurobarometer (and other) surveys has fallen to an unprecedented low - especially in the larger euro area countries. The authors find that up to the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Europe 2020 And The Financial System: Smaller Is Beautiful
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Meeting Europe's 2020 objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is even more of a challenge for the financial sector than for the EU as a whole. Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
When Financial Markets Force Too Much Austerity
May 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
After the eruption of the financial crisis, there was a general consensus that financial markets and rating agencies had singularly failed in giving the right incentives to investors and...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Is Financial Failure An Option In The EU?
May 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The euro area confronts a fundamental crisis. The European Council of Ministers had to promise hundreds of billions of euros to its financially imperiled member countries, even though the European...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
From National To European Regulation: Towards European Financial Supervisory Authorities
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Financial reform is needed now in the EU not only to reduce the likelihood of another financial crisis in the coming years but also to reinforce the internal market. A primary financial as well as...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financial Stability Beyond Greece: Making The Most Of The European Stabilisation Mechanism
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In his seminal work on international financial crises, Larry Summers wrote that policy-makers facing a crisis tend to go through a process reminiscent of the five stages of grief. The process...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Overcoming Too-Big-To-Fail A Regulatory Framework To Limit Moral Hazard And Free Riding In The Financial Sector
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the financial crisis subsides, the new regulatory structure for the financial system is starting to take shape, with a number of legislative proposals already tabled, and even approved, in the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Comparing EU And US Responses To The Financial Crisis
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since 2003, the EU and the US have conducted a vibrant regulatory dialogue on financial regulation, but domestic priorities seem to have taken precedence in response to the financial crisis. This...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Has The Financial Crisis Shattered Citizens' Trust In National And European Governmental Institutions?
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis has differently affected trust in national and European governmental institutions. The authors' paper analyzes the determinants of trust in national and European institutions...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Financial Stability: 'Collective Responsibility' Will Not Work
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Is the 'Euro crisis' closer to a resolution? Europe's leaders have promised to find by the end of this month a comprehensive package, not only to end this crisis, but also to preserve the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
The EU's Response To The Financial Crisis: A Mid-Term Review
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Two years after the London G-20, the EU is making good progress in delivering upon the commitments undertaken to be implemented by the 2013 target date. Important steps have been taken on the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Innovative Approaches To EU Blending Mechanisms For Development Finance
May 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The European Union is strongly committed to fulfilling the Aid Effectiveness goals of the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action, as well as the European Code of Conduct on Division of...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Market Dynamics In Supply Chains: The Impact Of Globalization And Consolidation On Food Companies~ Mark-Ups
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailers' market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
-
White Papers
Security, Risk and Human Rights: A Vanishing Relationship?
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In contrast to many studies that link the weakening of human rights to the post-September 11th counter-terrorism policies, this paper seeks to attribute it to the gradual disappearance of the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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