Category: Fiscal policy
April tax figures - not as good as they look
An tSaoi 05/05/2011
An Saoi: At an initial examination the April figures appear to be very good. However, at closer examination I think that there are a number of …
OECD Policy Responses to Unemployment
Sinéad Pentony 29/04/2011
Sinead Pentony: The OECD has pre-released a chapter from its forthcoming Economic Outlook 2011 Report on the Persistence of High Unemployment: What …
Palcic and Reeves on privatisation
21/04/2011
Given the week that's in it, PE readers may be interested in a new book by Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves, Privatisation in Ireland: Lessons from a …
Integrating innovation drivers
David Jacobson 19/04/2011
David Jacobson: I have been banging on in a number of blogs over the years on the importance of innovation policy, and in particular on the …
Guess-the-speaker
Michael Taft 14/04/2011
Michael Taft: "Just as we managed to tame inflation in the 1980s, this decade should be the one that takes full employment seriously once again . . . …
Facing Up to Reality II: The Methodological Flaw in An Bord Snip Nua
12/04/2011
This post follows on from a previous contribution. Michael Taft: In the previous post, we saw how billions of fiscal contraction has led to little …
Is the IMF changing? A hard-hitting attack on the Washington Consensus
Paul Sweeney 05/04/2011
Paul Sweeney: As the IMF is here in Ireland, with the ECB and EU Commission, on a mission of assisting Irish citizens to bail out our banks and thus …
March tax returns
An tSaoi 05/04/2011
An Saoi: The tax returns for March give us our first real feel for what is happening in the economy in 2011 through the bi-monthly VAT returns. VAT …
Learning like lemmings? Non-lessons of the crisis
James Wickham 01/04/2011
James Wickham: Why did the Irish crisis happen in Ireland? Most public discussion still seems to oscillate between personalising the issue (‘greedy …
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Nat O'Connor
Dr Nat O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at UCD, a fellow of the UCD …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Passerose Mantoy
Passerose Mantoy is the CEO of Chrysalis Community Drug Project, a community-based drug …