Iceland and Debt Forgiveness

Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson writes on the Icelandic experience in this Irish Times article.

Iceland: IMF programme completed

The IMF country report is here.

Towards a More Equal Society

Michael King writes on inequality in today’s contribution to the Irish Times series: you can read it here.

ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary

The executive summary is here.

Seamus Coffey: Reasons to be cheerful parts one, two and three

At the risk of setting up Seamus for apoplectic rage in comments, he nicely gathers together much of the recent good news on the Irish economy in an article for the Evening Echo.   The text of the article can be accessed via his excellent Economic Incentives website here.   We still face serious challenges, as Seamus clearly notes, but it is no harm to accentuate the positive every now and then.