This report explores the recent evolution of the social economy in the EU. It focuses on three areas: firstly, the social economy and the emergent concepts related to it, secondly, the public policies adopted in both the EU and the member states in the recent years to enhance the social economy sector and thirdly, measuring...

Highlights Assessment of food waste reduction impact needs to include economic and biophysical indicators. Economy-wide models as proposed in this paper can account for all market and non-market impacts of reducing food waste. Reducing households' food waste increases savings; it decreases agri-food production and to a minor extent GDP. Environmental indicators are improving as EU...

To understand what indicators used in CE measure specifically, the authors propose a classification framework to categorise indicators according to reasoning on what (CE strategies) and how (measurement scope).

This report considers the approaches taken by development partners when transitioning and exiting from bilateral aid programs. It features case studies of Australia, Denmark, the European Union, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Environmental Implementation Review aims at improving implementation in the field of EU environmental policy and legislation by identifying the causes of implementation gaps and addressing systemic obstacles to environmental integration across policy sectors. It maps the main challenges for each Member State, as well as existing good practices and points of excellence.