In this week's blog, NERI economist Ciarán Nugent looks at data from the CSO's Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) on deprivation in Ireland in 2019. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) published data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) last week on enforced deprivation...

The restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive earlier this year also heralded a renewed discussion about the devolved government’s lack of financial clout. The devolution settlement agreed for Northern Ireland in 1998 saw the creation of an Executive with significant spending powers. However...

In this week's blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly argues that Polanyi's thoughts on the relationship between markets and society could help us address climate breakdown. Saturday, August 22nd 2020, represented Earth Overshoot day according to the global footprint network. This represents the...

In this weeks blog Dr Lisa Wilson looks at the impact of lockdown, and in particular the impact on women's labour market participation. She calls on Government to do more to ensure that more women are not forced to leave the labour market owing to a lack of access to childcare. The lockdown, put...