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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 …
Comparison of EU Bank Bailouts
16/01/2013
Michael Taft uses Eurostat data here to compare the 'direct' impacts on General Government Deficits caused by the EU's numerous bank bailouts. In …
Promissory Notes: Any old deal won't do
Tom McDonnell 14/01/2013
Tom McDonnell: There is a real risk that any old deal in advance of the 31 March payment will be hailed as a victory after the failure to get a deal …
Launch of NERI Quarterly Economic Observer/Facts
09/01/2013
The NERI has published, today, its fourth Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) along with the latest Quarterly Economic Facts (QEF). A link to the full …
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …