The Great Recession of 2007-09 has led to a significant increase in public debt, in large part due to the collapse in tax revenues as incomes fell.
Both the academic and moral basis for ‘austerity’ have been discredited and its credibility has been undermined.
Social Justice Ireland's Policy Briefing-Programme for Solidarity and Sustainable Recovery 2013
This is an extraordinary story. The key academic study used to justify austerity in recent years in countries such as Ireland has been exposed as profoundly flawed.
"Ireland and the crisis - a Narrative" - this Occasional Paper was originally published in April 2013 as chapter 2 in Social Justice Ireland’s Socio-Economic Review 2013 entitled ‘What would real r
A new Caritas Europa study, reveals disturbing levels of poverty and deprivation in the five EU countries worst hit by the economic crisis; Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.&
Legislation has been passed providing for the orderly wind‐up of IBRC through the appointment of Special Liquidators who will manage the process
What is happening? The Bill passed today provides that joint Special Liquidators will be appointed to IBRC. When this is done the Central
Deal on Anglo/IBRC compounds the injustice of the original deal and copper-fastens it for generations to come.
A new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) raises very serious questions concerning the approach to recovery being followed by the ‘troika’ in EU countries including Irelan
