Blog Archive

01/07/2015

What the Danish Election tells us

David Begg 29/06/2015

David Begg: The extraordinary success of the populist, anti - immigration, anti EU, Danish People’s Party (DPP) last week continues a trend in …

Solving the Greek crisis – by making inequality worse?

James Wickham 26/06/2015

James Wickham: It seems the Eurozone finance ministers - and behind them the IMF – are rejecting the last proposals from the Greek government. …

Do we want the fewest public services in Europe?

Cormac Staunton 25/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: One of the key indicators in TASC's analysis of economic inequality is the level of taxation and government expenditure. We have …

UN Committee Response to Ireland on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Cormac Staunton 23/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: The UN’s Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, in its concluding observations on Ireland’s third periodic report, …

No inflation due to low wage rises

Paul Sweeney 22/06/2015

Paul Sweeney: There has been no rise in overall prices in seven years! In fact, prices today are a little lower than they were at the peak - which …

Lets start a race to the top: IMF on Inequality

Cormac Staunton 17/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: The IMF have released another staff paper on inequality with some very important findings for our understanding of both the causes …

There are no jobs on a dead planet

David Begg 16/06/2015

David Begg: German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, appears to have achieved something of a victory in persuading the G7 group of leading industrial …

Pensions Research Conference

11/06/2015

The Pension Policy Research Group Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday 17th June 2015 in the School of Business Trinity College Dublin. The …