Public-Private Partnerships in Ireland: A Review of the Experience

External event contribution
In July 2012 the Irish government announced a stimulus plan for the beleaguered economy. The plan to spend €2.25 billion on capital projects is largely based on the use of public-private partnerships (PPP) to procure new infrastructure and services. This signals a renewed wave of PPP procurement...

Will the IT sector reduce unemployment?

21 Jan 2013
Rory O'Farrell
In November, the CSO re-estimated historical estimates of employment. This has caused to seasonally adjusted peak to now be place in Q1 2008 rather than in 2007. Fundamentally the picture remains the same. There has been a sectoral shift in employment with construction hit particularly badly. There...

Policy Research Paper launched in Northern Ireland

15 Jan 2013
Paul Mac Flynn
Today the NERI published its first Policy Research Paper “Policy Options for Investment in Northern Ireland”. The paper will be officially launched at an event in Parliament Buildings in Belfast today. The paper seeks to highlight the infrastructural investment required in the Northern Ireland...

1 in 5 children at risk of poverty

14 Jan 2013
Micheál Collins
The proportion of the Republic of Ireland's children living in households whose income is below the 60% of median income poverty line has experienced limited change over the past few years. While the years 2006-07 recorded a decrease from 22.3% to 19.9%, by 2010 almost 1 in every 5 children (19.5%)...

Quarterly Economic Facts - January 2013

09 Jan 2013
infobo
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

NERI Quarterly Economic Observer January 2013

09 Jan 2013
Micheál Collins
The NERI has published our latest commentary on the economies of the island of Ireland today. In this edition of the Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO), we outline our expectations for the Republic of Ireland's economy for the next three years. Our projections are pessimistic, highlighting an ongoing...
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