The analytical chapters from the new WEO are now online here.
Chapter 3 is on “Lessons for Monetary Policy from Asset Price Fluctuations”
Chapter 4 is on “What’s the Damage? Medium-Term Output Dynamics after Financial Crises”
Category: Economic Performance
The Migration Information Source provides a nice overview of recent immigration and emigration patterns for Ireland: you can read it here.
The analytical chapters from the latest GFSR have been released
Chapter II. Restarting Securitization Markets: Policy Proposals and Pitfalls
Chapter III. Market Interventions during the Financial Crisis: How Effective and How to Disengage?
These are available here.
Agri-Aware, a body set up by organisations in the farm and food industries to improve the image and understanding of agriculture and the food sector in Ireland, has just issued a report The Agriculture and Food Industry – Bigger, Brighter, Tougher prepared by Jim Power of Friends First. The report examines data on the employment performance of the food industry during the past twelve months as well as surveying the opinions of industry managers on the main challenges they face over the next 12 months as well as their views on prospects for the coming 5 years.
Unfortunately, the main finding that the report itself highlights – that one in seven jobs in Ireland are dependent on the agriculture and food industries – appears to be based on a flawed analysis of the survey data. No one would deny that the agri-food sector has a hugely important role to play in helping to turn the real economy round, and there is no doubt that it faces real challenges, as usefully documented in this report. But the attempt to puff the industry up into playing a bigger role than it actually does is simply part of the special interest pleading we see so much of in the run-up to the next budget.