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ILO Global Wage Report 2012/13

Nat O'Connor 18/02/2013

Nat O'Connor: There is a lot of interesting data in the latest ILO report focusing on the declining wage share of labour, and on static or falling …

'Outing Exclusion’ Conference, Sat 16 Feb 2013

13/02/2013

The National Lesbian & Gay Federation (NLGF) - in conjunction with Dublin City Council Social Inclusion Unit and The Community Foundation for …

The OECD ramps up plans against corporate tax avoidance

Sheila Killian 12/02/2013

Sheilla Killian:Following yesterday’s primer on the landscape of multinational taxes, this post reviews today’s brand-new OECD report on their …

Multinational tax avoidance and international responses (1 of 2)

11/02/2013

Ahead of tomorrow’s release by the OECD of what promises to be an interesting report on their plans to address multinational tax avoidance, this …

Open Budgets: Time for Ireland to join the rest of the world

05/02/2013

Today, the World bank is hosting a live blogging event on the results of the International Budget Partnership's 'Open Budget Survey'. The survey, …

The €64 Billion Question

Nat O'Connor 05/02/2013

Nat O'Connor: In 1955, the $64,000 Question was a 'big money' quiz in the early days of American TV (Wikipedia). Six decades later Ireland's bank …

New CEPR paper on the contribution of IMF recommendations to the ongoing crisis in Europe

30/01/2013

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington D.C. has published a paper examining the policy recommendations made by the IMF to …

Guest post: Potential of Government Shares held in the ‘Viable’ Banks

Gearóid Ó Cosgora 25/01/2013

Guest post by Gearóid Ó Cosgora: A subject that deserves an airing, if only to tease it out, is the potential of utilising the government’s …

Financialisation

16/01/2013

The most recent issue of the Economic and Social Review has a symposium on the politics of financialisation, including papers on the US, a …

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