Showing posts with label Irish competitiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish competitiveness. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

13/12/19: World Bank and WEF reports highlight relatively poor competitiveness rankings for Ireland

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The latest World Bank "Doing Business" report rankings and the WEF's "Global Competitiveness Report" rankings show...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

9/2/16: Currency Devaluation and Small Countries: Some Warning Shots for Ireland

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In recent years, and especially since the start of the ECB QE programmes, euro depreciation vis-a-vis other key currencies, namely the USD...
Friday, May 16, 2014

16/5/2014: Competitive Sports of Competitiveness Gains

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Yesterday I posted my Sunday Times article on unemployment and skills:  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2014/05/1552014-jobs-employment-lo...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

8/12/2013: Forbes Claims v Reality

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I wrote about Forbes' ludicrous 'rankings' relating to Ireland last week (here:  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/12/5122...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

5/12/2013: That Forbes Folly of Global Rankings...

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So Forbes Magazine ranked Ireland 1st in the world as location for doing business ( http://www.forbes.com/best-countries-for-business/list/...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

28/9/2013: Real v Imputed Labour Cost Competitiveness Gains: Ireland v EA17

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I wrote recently about the problems with Irish competitiveness and the thesis of significant gains in it since the onset of the crisis: ...
Friday, September 27, 2013

27/9/2013: Internal Devaluation: Picking a Right Target?

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Conventional wisdom of the 'internal devaluation' theory goes as follows: if a country like Ireland were to experience a structural...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

26/9/2013: Sunday Times 15/9/2013: What About Irish Competitiveness?

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from September 15. Recent experiments in psychology have shown that people routine...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

30/5/2013: Irish Competitiveness Improves in 2013... but

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IMD released its World Competitiveness Rankings yesterday (see link here:  http://www.imd.org/news/World-Competitiveness-2013.cfm ) and the...
Monday, April 15, 2013

15/4/2013: Irish Labour Costs: IDA spin and reality

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IDA presentation claims loudly & boldly that Ireland is one of 3 countries where nominal wages have dropped (slide 5). This raises...
Friday, September 7, 2012

7/9/2012: Ireland is not exactly shining in Global Competitiveness terms

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Spot that Highly Competitive economy called Ireland? Yep, that's right: Ireland ranks 27th in the Global Competitiveness Index...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

29/7/2012: Irish Competitiveness

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Unedited version of my Sunday Times article from July 22. These days, with nearly 15 percent unemployment, and almost...
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