The number of people at risk of poverty in Ireland has grown from 14.1% in 2009 to 15.8% in 2010 according to the latest Survey on Income and Living Condidtions (SILC) conducted by the Central…
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Ireland's newest think tank - the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) - has proposed a new €15 billion stimulus and investment programme aimed at creating jobs, boosting demand and…
Theme: Inequality and Development in a Globalised Economy - The Basic Income Option
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European Commission growth prediction for Ireland shows Government’s approach to development is not workingThe European Commission today published its Winter 2011 Review of Economic Adjustmen…
The announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills that cuts announced to DEIS schools in Budget 2012 are to be reversed is in line with a recent report from the OECD. Social…
Goes nowhere near the scale required to address long-term unemployent.
The Government’s new Pathways‘’ programme goes nowhere near what is required to have a significant…
More than three quarters of the savings came from correcting errors made by Department of Social Protection staffClaims that welfare fraud prevention resulted in savings of €…
According to Professor Karl Whelan (University College Dublin) much of IBRC’s (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) debt was incurred by the Irish state so that unsecured and unguaranteed senior bondholders…
