Showing posts with label IDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IDA. Show all posts
Thursday, February 6, 2014

6/2/2014: Rip-Off Ireland: Alive and Kicking… Courtesy of the State

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from January 26, 2014. Ninety five years ago, in his book The Economic Conseque...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

5/12/2013: Irish Services Index, October 2013

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So Services PMIs are booming… they are positively booming… …while in the real world, per CSO: "The seasonally adjusted monthly ...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

5/9/2013: Irish Services Sector Activity Index: July 2013

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Monthly Services Activity Index from the cSO is out for July. Some interesting movements in the series. Wholesale and retail trade sub-...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

4/7/2013: Irish Services Sector Activity Index: May 2013

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Irish Services Index for May was out today, so here are the updated trends. Wholesale Trade activity rose from 114.7 to 116.7 between Apr...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

11/6/2013: Irish Services Index: April 2013

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Good news is: on an annual basis, per CSO, in April 2013: Administrative and Support Service Activities rose +21.3%,  Information and C...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

7/5/2013: Irish Services Index, Q1 2013 data

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Irish Services Index is out today for Q1 2013 and here are some details (monthly data analysis to follow). Keep in mind, data only starts f...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

7/4/2013: Irish Services Activity Index - February 2013

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Irish Services activity fell in February 2013 per latest CSO data, marking second consecutive month of decline. In February 2013, ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

11/3/2013: Irish Services Activity: January 2013

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In an earlier post I covered annual figures for Services Index for Ireland (link here ). Today's release from CSO also provides data fo...

11/3/2013: Irish Services Sectors Activity in 2012

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Data for 2012 end of the year index of activity in Irish Services sectors is out and before I cover monthly data for January 2013, here are...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

18/8/2012: What the IDA forecasts don't tell us?

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I waited for several days before posting about the latest mystery of Irish statistics.  This presentation from IDA contains the followi...
Monday, August 13, 2012

13/8/2012: Telling tales about our 'Productivity'?

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IDA recently used the following chart in the context of Irish competitiveness comparatives to the rest of EEC: According to the above,...
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13/8/2012: National Competitiveness: Not Exactly Good Numbers for Ireland

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An interesting paper, THE DETERMINANTS OF NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS by Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Ster...