Category: Economics
Clamping Down on Tax Injustice—Sharing the Price of Austerity
Daragh McCarthy 03/12/2012
Daragh McCarthy: On Wednesday, the EU’s tax commissioner will outline a set of proposals aimed at reducing the level of tax evasion and aggressive …
Making Equality Count—the Case for Budgetary Impact Assessments
Clara Fischer 29/11/2012
Clara Fischer: Ireland’s next budget is only around the corner, and people all over the country are bracing themselves for what is set to be …
The Default Option - Cancelling the Odious Debt
Tom McDonnell 14/11/2012
Tom McDonnell: We have seen again in the last few days that the troika are a not a monolith. They disagree quite fundamentally on many issues. It is …
Jobs and credit crises call for clear policy response
17/10/2012
Michael O'Sullivan (author of Ireland and the Global Question) has written a lucid article on what's required for job creation in today's Irish …
Choices Around Cutting Child Benefit
Nat O'Connor 02/10/2012
Nat O'Connor: Despite the helpful reminder from Joseph Stiglitz that "Austerity has almost never worked", the Government has decided to cut further …
National Income and Expenditure 2011
Michael Burke 05/09/2012
Michael Burke: The argument in favour of ‘austerity’ measures is that the overriding objective of policy must be to reduce the government …
Scale of inequality now a drag on our economy and well-being
Colm O'Doherty 09/08/2012
Colm O'Doherty: The results from the Central Statistics Office Survey of Income and living Conditions 2010, released earlier this year, confirmed …
Internal devaluation in the Eurozone
Tom McDonnell 09/08/2012
Tom McDonnell: Ronald Janssen explores the impact of falling wage costs in the Eurozone periphery here. He argues that export revival has not been …
Guest post by Vic Duggan: 'Baltic Miracle' no model for Ireland and peripheral Europe
Vic Duggan 12/07/2012
Vic Duggan: Europe’s policy response to the ongoing sovereign debt and banking crises on the continent’s periphery appears to be in suspended …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …