A firefighting budget

15 Oct 2020
Dr Tom McDonnell
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell gives the NERI's response to Budget 2021. Budget 2021 was a firefighting budget against the twin threats of Covid and Brexit. It was designed to preserve as much of the economy’s productive capacity as possible by enabling a menu of wage...

NERI comment - Northern Ireland ASHE data

12 Oct 2020
Dr Lisa Wilson
Belfast
ASHE data published today show median hourly pay across the economy to have fallen by 2.0 per cent in the year to April. This is most remarkable because it shows starkly the nature of how the Covid public health crisis turned very quickly into a labour market and living standards crisis. Today’s...

The Coronavirus Economy and Response

05 Oct 2020
Dr Tom McDonnell
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell describes the economic fallout and the appropriate policy response to the Coronavirus economy. Those early hopes from last March that we could put the economy into a 12-week deep freeze and then re-emerge with a quick v-shaped recovery were...
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