In this weeks blog by NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn he discusses the outcomes of the seminar that he co-presented with Dr. Tom McDonnell, NERI Co-director on Wednesday and their upcoming working paper on resilient growth. The global economy is in the midst of yet another unprecedented crisis. The...

The 10th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture was held in the offices of the Communications Workers' Union (CWU) on Thursday 10th November. Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor (Financial Regulation), Central Bank of Ireland delivered the annual lecture as keynote speaker. Kevin Callinan, President of the...

See opening statement from Dr. Tom McDonnell, NERI Co-director to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight on 'Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 14 of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report' here.

Inflation is the rate at which the cost of goods and services have been rising over a time period – such as, this year compared to last year, or this month compared to last month. Over the year to September of this year, the inflation rate was 8.8% higher than it was last year. In practical terms...

The Republic of Ireland do not publish a national estimate of the gender pay gap. This is somewhat paradoxical given that we now have legislation that requires all large employers to publish their own gender pay gap, yet there exists no publication at national level that estimates the overall gender...