JRC.B.3 - Territorial Development

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was extremely active, with 30 “named storms” (tropical storm or higher strength), including 13 hurricanes, which is more than double the long-term average of 12 named storms and 6 hurricanes. Several records were set (e.g. number of na...

JRC.B.2 - Fiscal Policy Analysis

Este informe analiza la evolución de la movilidad en Andalucía durante la pandemia de covid-19 utilizando datos de operadores de redes de telefonía móvil y una variedad de datos de acceso abierto y fuentes emergentes. Los datos sugieren que la movilidad en Andalucía se ...

In the EU, the right to timely access the ‘affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality’ and the right to ‘affordable long-term services of good quality’ are enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights (C(2017) 2600 final). The backbone of healt...

China is leading in the application of new digital technologies in education. The market is young, albeit highly competitive, as parents willingly adopt any technological innovation that could help their children, and schools as well, since they are judged on their pupi...

The study analyses impacts of multiple stressors including floods, COVID-19 and desert locusts on agri-food value-chains in Kenya’s main agricultural areas during the 2020 long rains season. While 76% of farmers reported negative impacts of Covid-19 on their primary inc...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been supporting the European Commission in multidisciplinary areas to understand the COVID-19 emergency, anticipate its impacts, and support contingency planning. This activity forms part of ...

Inspired by the ideas developed in Timmer (2017), this paper proposes a measure of Global Value Chain – Total Factor Productivity (GVC-TFP) and a decomposition of its changes into three informative factors: changes in factor requirements associated with efficiency gains...

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing an unprecedented global health crisis and socio-economic upheaval and led to severe consequences well beyond previous crises of the last decades which mostly were related to financial issues. COVID-19 caused sudden economic, psychologica...