Pension affordability depends on a range of ostensibly unrelated policies
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director Dr Tom McDonnell discusses the NERI Submission to the Pensions Commission - 'Public consultation regarding the pension sustainability'. The government's pension commission is currently debating the long-run affordability of the Irish pension system. The NERI...
The 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture
This year, the NERI was delighted to host Professor Emeritus of Economics Cormac Ó Gráda for our 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture in our biggest event yet. His lecture “The Irish Economy After A Century” offered a long view of economic development on the island of Ireland. Professor Ó Gráda...
8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture - Video
Video from the 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture held as a webinar on Tuesday 23rd February, 2021. Professor Cormac Ó Gráda gave this years Lecture. The title was 'The Irish Economy After A Century'...
NERI Submission to the Department of the Taoiseach re the National Recovery & Resilience Programme
External event contribution The NERI Submission to the Department of the Taoiseach re the National Recovery & Resilience Programme was written by the NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell on 22nd February, 2021.
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...