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    • Aspects of foreign direct investment in Irish manufacturing since 1973: policy and performance 

      Ruane, Frances; Gorg, Holger (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)
    • Building research capacity in the social sciences ? alternatives approaches 

      Ruane, Frances; Whelan, Brendan J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2011)
      In contrast to previous decades, the past decade has seen major investments by the Irish government in the national research capacity. As part of this investment, there has been a significant investment in the social ...
    • The Changing Patterns of Production and Consumption of Official Statistics in Ireland 1989-2019 

      Ruane, Frances (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)
      This paper examines the major improvements in Ireland’s official statistics since 1989, a period of exceptional economic and social change in Ireland. The Irish Statistical System now produces statistics that are comprehensive ...
    • Competitiveness on the Island of Ireland 

      Johnston, Richard; Ruane, Frances; Heery, Laura (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)
      This paper considers Ireland and Northern Ireland’s relative international competitive performance across four policy input domains: education and skills; research, development & innovation; infrastructure and the business ...
    • Industrial development 

      Ruane, Frances (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1983)
      The recent review of industrial policy is the first major industrial policy review since the gradual shift in economic policies some twenty years ago from promoting import substituting native industries by tariffs and ...
    • Public policy, sectoral specialisation and spatial concentration: Irish manufacturing 1985-2002 

      Gleeson, Anne-Marie; Ruane, Frances; Sutherland, J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)
      For over fifty years Ireland has pursued an industrial policy that has had at its core the generation of sustainable manufacturing jobs spread across all regions of the country. From the late 1980s the emphasis on ...