Browsing JSSISI: Symposia by Subject "314.15"
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Assessing Household Living Standards and Income Resilience at the Outset of the Cost-of-Living Crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper explores the living standards of Ireland’s 1.9 million households at the outset of the 2021/23 cost-of-living crisis and considers the heterogeneous experience of that crisis by households across income distribution. ... -
Building research capacity in the social sciences ? alternatives approaches
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2011)In contrast to previous decades, the past decade has seen major investments by the Irish government in the national research capacity. As part of this investment, there has been a significant investment in the social ... -
Business in a Compressed Economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)COVID-19 has led to the sharpest compression of economic activity in living memory (OECD, 2020). The recent roadmap published by Government gives clarity on when sectors may expect to be allowed re-open again, but ‘normal’ ... -
Climate Change and the Financial System
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A Coded Taxonomy of the Statistical Indicators for Global Reporting of Targets within the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)In 2015, 193 UN member countries signed Resolution A/RES/70/1 2030 – ‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. The United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lie at the heart ... -
Competitiveness on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper considers Ireland and Northern Ireland’s relative international competitive performance across four policy input domains: education and skills; research, development & innovation; infrastructure and the business ... -
Covid19 and the Northern Irish Economy: Initial Insights
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)During today’s symposium, I'm going to share some thoughts on the initial impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Northern Ireland economy, focusing on three broad areas. I will start by highlighting some points ... -
Delivering integrated policy and services for children
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)The Irish Public Service has been relatively strong historically in the area of policy formulation. I have come to the conclusion, however, that we are relatively weak when it comes to implementation and many good policies ... -
Economic and Fiscal Policy since 1997: What Caused the Crisis and How Should It Be Rectified?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)In this paper I propose to examine the background to the current crisis which involves both a contraction in the economy due in part to the global crisis, and a collapse in the tax base due to the disappearance of property ... -
The Economic and Societal Impact of University College Cork
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Economic Crisis, Exacting Voters and Twenty-Five Years of Electoral Transformation in Ireland 1997-2022
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Explaining the Belated Emergence of Social Protest in Ireland Between 2009 and 2014
(SSISI, 2017)In the summer of 2009, Ireland was the first European country to officially enter recession following the fiscal crisis which had enveloped the international banking system following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in ... -
Globalisation, Inequality and Populism
(SSISI, 2017)Inequality in the distribution of income and wealth among individuals has now come to the fore as a core concern across the industrialised world. In 2013 then President of the United States Barack Obama identified rising ... -
Inflation and Monetary Policy – What Next?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)A combination of pandemic-related bottlenecks, strong demand and the war in Ukraine have contributed to record-high rates of inflation in the euro area and Ireland. Since the late-2022 inflation peak, headline inflation ... -
Institutional Design and Irish Political Reform
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)The financial and economic crisis that erupted in 2008 exposed significant weaknesses in Irish decision-making and policy implementing processes. In contrast with other European countries in the grip of crisis, the political ... -
The Magnitude of the Problem
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)The Macroeconomic and Fiscal Framework document accompanying the April 2009 Supplementary Budget detailed the measures that had been taken since July 2009 to address the weakening public finances. -
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
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)
