Economic Outlook for 2024 – A more normal year may be in the cards
Blog by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell on where the Irish economy is heading to in 2024. Where is the economy heading as we hurtle towards 2024? My own view is that 2023 will be seen to mark the second last year in the rollercoaster economic cycle that was triggered by the Covid pandemic in...
Moving to Normal?
In this blog NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell summarises the main points of his latest NERI Report on how the economy did in 2023 and projections for 2024. The latest NERI Economic Report takes a look back at how the economy did in 2023 and offers some projections for 2024. The economy has held...
Sustainable public finances and fiscal devolution
External event contribution Dr Lisa Wilson presentation at the NI Economics Conference, Agenda NI conference 2023.
NERI Seminar Series 2023: Transforming the economy to deliver a Just Transition
The seminar titled 'Transforming the economy to deliver a Just Transition' was presented by Mr Laurie Macfarlane, Co-director, Future Economy Scotland. It took place on Thursday 16 November 2023 at 15...
A consequential but flawed budget
The NERI Post Budget Analysis Seminar takes place today at 15:30 in SIPTU, Liberty Hall, details here if you wish to attend. In the blog below, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell offers some thoughts about what was a highly consequential but ultimately flawed budget. Despite its evident flaws...
We're at capacity - but turbulence ahead
In this NERI blog, NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell summarises the main points of his latest NERI Report Series No. 25 - ' Full employment now, but enormous challenges ahead'. Employment growth has been very strong over the last year. We are at record employment, a record rate of female employment...
Building a unitary housing market - Proposals to end Ireland's housing woes
In this latest NERI blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly summarises the main points of the latest NERI Long-Read, co-authored with SIPTU researcher Michael Taft ( @notesonthefront). They argue that Irish housing policy should be redirected from subsidising an inefficient system towards building...
Presentation and video from Transforming the economy to deliver a Just Transition
The seminar titled 'Transforming the economy to deliver a Just Transition' was presented by Mr Laurie Macfarlane, Co-director, Future Economy Scotland. It took place on Thursday 16 November 2023 at 15.30 in the INTO offices, 23 College Gardens, Belfast, BT9 6BS and was live streamed. Find the...
Regional Productivity in Ireland
In this blog, NERI economist Chris Smart uses a dataset provided by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to calculate a variety of regional indicators. He looks at gross value added (GVA) and how it is affected by the sectoral makeup of different NUTS regions and on GVA per hour worked. The blog is...
The Budget 2024: NERI Post Budget Analysis Seminar - presentations
The Budget 2024: NERI Post Budget analysis seminar took place in SIPTU, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Thursday 12 October 2023 from 15:30 - 16:30. The details were as follows: Title: "Budget 2024: Post Budget Analysis". Speakers: Michael Taft (SIPTU), Dr. Tricia Keilthy (St Vincent de Paul) and Dr. Rory...