On St Patrick’s Day, the European Commission issued its opinion on Ireland’s multi-year fiscal plan: you can download it here.
Category: Fiscal Policy
As suggested by one of the readers, this is an interesting article on UK fiscal policy by the well-known development economist Paul Collier: you can read it here.
The latest edition of the Economic and Social Review has been published. The edition contains two policy papers by staff from the ESRI, one by Tim Callan, Claire Keane and John Walsh on property taxes and the other by David Duffy on negative equity. The Irish Independent have “seen Duffy’s report” presumably because they have access to the Internet. Now you can read it too.
Jeffrey Sachs joins forces with George Osborne to make the case for a frugal fiscal policy in this FT article.
I return to the case for a new fiscal framework in today’s Irish Times: you can read the column here.