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Thursday, September 26, 2013

26/9/2013: Framing Budget 2014: Village Magazine September 2013

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This is an unedited version of my column in the Village Magazine, August-September 2013 With early Budget looming on the horizon, the ci...

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Economics 06/12/2009: Replacement rates for Irish social welfare payments

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Department of Finance has published (unnoticed by most) its estimates of the replacement rates for Irish Social Welfare system. Per DofF, an...

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Friday, August 14, 2009

Economics 14/08/2009: Irish welfare rates - Part II

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I grew tired of, honestly, of the bull surrounding the OECD stats on social welfare. So I crunched through the data, available from their da...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Economics 14/08/2009: Irish welfare rates and the tragedy of poverty

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On last night's RTE Prime Time I referred to the OECD 2007 report that shows Ireland having the second highest welfare rates in EU27 (a...

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