Tagged with: equality
Build Back Better or Back to Business as usual?
Gerry Mitchell 30/06/2020
Build Back Better Guiding Principles Originating in the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, ‘Build Back Better’ has been a United Nations guiding principle of physical disaster risk reduction since 2015. During the pandemic, it has become the campaigning slogan for a vast coalition of business groups, trade unions, faith leaders, NGOs, …
Making Equality Count—the Case for Budgetary Impact Assessments
Clara Fischer 29/11/2012
Clara Fischer: Ireland’s next budget is only around the corner, and people all over the country are bracing themselves for what is set to be …
Scale of inequality now a drag on our economy and well-being
Colm O'Doherty 09/08/2012
Colm O'Doherty: The results from the Central Statistics Office Survey of Income and living Conditions 2010, released earlier this year, confirmed …
Questions that should be put to the Minister
Michael Taft 27/07/2011
Michael Taft: The Cabinet has approved the interim Household Charge of €100, designed to ‘raise’ €160 million from 1.8 million households. …
Unnatural selection
Paul Sweeney 15/06/2011
Paul Sweeney: In Tuesday's Financial Times there was a really provocative book reivew by Joshua Kurlantzick on a book by Mara Hvistendahl on the …
Towards the Good Society
Sinéad Pentony 20/04/2011
Sinéad Pentony: As the debt, fiscal and economic crises rumble on, and as fire-fighting policy responses continue, it can be difficult to think …
Reviewing the Universal Social Charge
Tom McDonnell 11/03/2011
Tom McDonnell: The new Programme for Government is, perhaps understandably, light on detail in many areas. The document is highly aspirational in …
Categories
Contributors
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He is …
![Duggan, Vic]](/assets/img/2017/04/1491994913319631_sq.jpg)
Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …