Category: Investment
Housing and homelessness crisis worsens
Rory Hearne 25/08/2016
Rory Hearne: This week’s figures on homelessness and rent increases provide further evidence of the on-going housing crisis. Unfortunately the …
London on the Liffey? Some impacts of the relocation of financial services jobs to Dublin
James Wickham 21/08/2016
James Wickham: Post-Brexit it is widely believed that Ireland will benefit from the relocation of some financial services employment from London to …
Taoiseach appears to seek Increased Public Investment, as does OECD.
Paul Sweeney 13/06/2016
Paul Sweeney: The leak in the Irish Times (13th June 2016) that the Taoiseach has written to Mr Juncker, President of the EU Commisson, on the need …
National Income and Expenditure 2011
Michael Burke 05/09/2012
Michael Burke: The argument in favour of ‘austerity’ measures is that the overriding objective of policy must be to reduce the government …
The effects of an investment stimulus
Rory O'Farrell 20/07/2012
Rory O'Farrell: The idea of an investment stimulus got a boost this week. Though people may disagree over the extent to which this is 'new money', it …
Is the Irish Economy At a Turning-Point?
Michael Burke 12/07/2012
Michael Burke: There are a number of curious features of the latest quarterly national accounts data. Statisticians frequently warn that these are …
Investment strategies and economic recovery
05/07/2012
TASC hosted its third lunchtime seminar yesterday. Tom Healy, Director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, gave an interesting presentation on …
Splashing the water
Michael Taft 28/06/2012
Michael Taft: First there was Claiming our Future with its bold but common-sensical proposals to promote growth and equity in the economy. Now we …
Invest and do no further harm
27/06/2012
The Nevin Economic Research Institute will be publishing its second Quarterly Economic Observer later today. Click here to download the full …
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