What type of recovery?
In this week's blog, NERI Co-director Dr Tom McDonnell discusses Lockdown 3 and the EU Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF). Lockdown 3 grinds on with economic recovery tied to vaccine rollouts, virus containment policies and ongoing government supports. A cautious approach to opening up the economy...
Universal Basic Services - Debating UBS &the policy alternatives
While the term is overused - there can be no doubt that 2020 was an unprecedented and devastating year for the global economy. The crisis has brought radical policy innovations and shown the power of governments willing to act. Our view is that the crisis has highlighted flaws inherent in our social...
The problem of decoupling: some stark climate maths
In this week’s blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly discusses the challenge posed by the necessary effort to decarbonise and what it might mean for economic growth. Economic growth is the dominant concept informing government policy around the world. Economic policy is structured around...
Presentation & Video from the 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture WEBINAR
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, UCD and Irish Economic Historian gave this year's 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture. It was run as a Zoom webinar on Tuesdsay 23rd February, 2021. The details were as follows: Title: The Irish Economy After A Century Presenter: Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, Irish Economic...
A firefighting budget
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...
The Coronavirus Economy and Response
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...
8th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar - After Covid
Find the video from day 2, session 4 of the 8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 held on 18th September, 2020 as a Zoom webinar. This session on ' After Covid' was chaired by Dr Lisa Wilson...
8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar - Productivity in Ireland 2018
Find the video from day 1, plenery presentation by the Central Statistics Office at the 8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar held on 17th September, 2020 as a Zoom webinar. Ms Yvonne...
8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar - Just Transition
Day 1, Session 1, Chair: Dr Patrick Malone, UCD Geary Institute. Ms Sinéad Mercier, Consultant on Just Transition & climate change law & policy. Four Case Studies of Just Transition: Lessons for...
The economy grows, employment increases and 143,000 more individuals (47,000 workers) can’t afford the basics
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...