The Sunday Tribune carried an interview with Martin Wolf yesterday. Among the main points:
- the importance of nominal wage reductions in order to promote export-led growth
- funding risk in the sovereign debt market
Author: Philip Lane
Some insights into the official thinking concerning tax policies can be obtained by reading the papers produced by the Tax Strategy Group: a new batch has just been released.
FAS produces a useful quarterly commentary on the Irish labour market, which provides a detailed analysis of what has been happening in recent months: you can read a summary (and download the full report) here.
This report was launched today: you can download the chapters here.
In addition, the OECD released the conclusions and recommendations of the Environmental Performance review of Ireland, which make for interesting reading.
In Wednesday’s Irish Times, I put forward a compressed version of the talk I gave at Monday’s DEW workshop: you can read it here.