Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, April, 1992 by Title

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    • Ireland's economy in the 1980s: stagnation and recovery - a preliminary review of the evidence 

      Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper reviews recent literature on Ireland's economic experiences in the 1980s. It was a decade of EMS membership, with stagnation and a rapidly mounting debt problem followed by a sharp recovery from 1987. Controversy ...

    • "Ireland's economy in the 1980s: Stagnation and recovery": A Comment 

      McCarthy, F. Desmond (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      During much of the 1980s the Irish national debt/GDP ratio reached 130 per cent, the current account deficit was over 15 per cent, while the government deficit remained persistently large. Since then the debt/GDP ratio has ...

    • Social consensus and incomes policy 

      Durkan, Joe (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper argues that centralised bargaining as practised in Ireland added to wage inflationary pressure as: the focus of centralised bargaining was the preservation of good industrial relations; the process of wage ...

    • "Social consensus and incomes policy": a comment 

      Tansey, Paul (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      Most people are conditioned to believe that centralised pay deals are a good thing. They have names that stress harmony and consensus from National Understandings to Programmes for Economic and Social Progress. They are ...