The Medium-Term Economic Strategy fails to provide an acceptable guiding vision or a sustainable policy framework for the years ahead. Its approach is lop-sided and most disappointing.
Social Justice Ireland's Social Policy Book 2013
Ireland needs a combination of vision and pragmatic policies that can truly move the country towards a desirable and sustainable future. We also need to focus on evidence rather than on the e
Social Justice Ireland presents a viable policy framework that would secure both solidarity and sustainable recovery in the decade ahead.
The IMF has just published the 8th Review and Country Report on Ireland. The report outlines the substantial challenges facing Ireland in 2013. Growth projections for our trading partners have been revised down and domestic demand is expected to contract again in 2013. The IMF also notes that if growth projections for 2013 were to disappoint, any additional fiscal consolidation should be deferred to 2015 to protect the recovery.
Social Justice Ireland's Policy Briefing on Ireland and the Global South.
The Full Document can be accessed here
Social Justice Ireland's 2012 Pre-Budget Submission of DOCHAS, the organisation of Irish development NGOs.
Ireland is heading for the fourth year in a row in which its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Budget will fall as a percentage of Gross National Product. According to the annual report of
There are 920m people in the Global South living on less than $1.25 a day. In a world with resources many times what is required to eliminate global poverty this situation isintolerable.
