Browsing JSSISI: Symposia by Title
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Politicians, the bureaucracy and economic policymaking over two crises: the 1950s and today
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)Recent reports into the performance of the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the Department of Finance in the lead-up to the current crisis identify three key weaknesses: the pressures towards `group think? within ... -
Projecting population mortality for Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)Mortality data for Ireland is analysed, for recent and long-run trends, and several methods of projecting mortality rates are outlined and the results compared. Interpretation of the results suggests that it is not ... -
Research and policy-making ? strengthening the link
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2011)This paper reviews the current relationship between research and evidence based policy-making in Ireland. It reviews the role of the State in its broadest sense and considers relevant research required to underpin policy ... -
Researchers imply, policymakers infer: the relationship between evidence and policy
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Safeguarding trust in Irish Official Statistics: A code of practice for the Irish statistical system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)For official statistics to be of value they must be trusted. Achieving and maintaining trust requires that statistics are produced in an objective, transparent and independent manner. In many countries codes of practice ... -
Sustainable Development: The Role of Taxation
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Sustainable Industrial Development: Enterprise Policy and Financing Decarbonisation
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Symposium on EC Structural Funds
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1993)Ireland is the recipient of one of the largest foreign aid programmes in the world. Our net receipts from the EC between 1990 and 1992 averaged 6.7 per cent of GNP. The EC has three structural funds; the guidance section ... -
Symposium on economic development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)I must, at the outset, congratulate Mr. Whitaker on succeeding, where others have failed, in arousing the authorities, both Governmental and Departmental, to the urgent necessity for a systematic programme of economic ... -
Symposium on Investment in Education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)The recent publication of Investment in Education, prepared under joint Irish and O.E.C.D. auspices, has been an event of major importance in Irish education. The members of the survey team would, I feel sure, be amongst ... -
Symposium on science and Irish economic development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)None of us, I suppose, would deny the basic assumption that greater efforts in research and technology would strengthen the economy, whether through improved agriculture or improved and diversified industrial output. If ... -
Symposium on social security
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)When I was asked to make some comments upon the White Paper entitled ?Social Security? no indication was given as to the particular aspect with which I was expected to deal. The paper is of importance because it summarises ... -
Symposium on the economic returns to education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)In my contribution to this Symposium I wish to explore two main themes. The first deals with the contribution of education to economic growth at the macro level. In this part I shall discuss the evidence of the importance ... -
Symposium on the economic returns to education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)The Second Programme for Economic Expansion, published in 1963, was the first public acknowledgement by the Irish government that expenditure on education was an investment in the nation?s future. It was to be many years ... -
Symposium on the Idea of a University in the 1990s
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1990)In the centenary year of Cardinal Newman's death and when universities and higher education are under widespread and critical appraisal it is fitting and timely that the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland ... -
Symposium on the privatisation of state assets and state commercial companies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)In a recent article in the Irish Times (November 5 1987) Political Editor Dick Walsh pointed out that "calling for privatisation now sounds like a singularly ill-timed appeal to give capitalism another chance. It sounds ... -
Symposium on the report of the Commission on Social Welfare
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1987)In a paper of this nature it is not possible to consider all the main issues and recommendations in the Report of the Commission on Social Welfare. Of necessity, therefore, I have to be selective in the points highlighted, ... -
Technology foresight
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)Following the investment in education OECD study in the early sixties the significance of technology to economic development became more apparent. The setting up of the National Science Council under the chairmanship of ... -
Trade and development: the challenges facing the WTO Doha development road
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)The WTO Ministerial meeting in Doha in November 2001 launched a new Round of world trade talks known as the Doha Development Agenda or Death. DDA represents a new approach to the goal of integrating developing countries ... -
Trade and industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1985)This paper discusses trade aspects of Ireland's relations with Third World countries. As implied in the overall title of the symposium, "Ireland, Europe and the Third World", the topic is dealt with in a European Community ...
