Economy
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Where have all the workers gone?
Despite a furlough scheme designed to keep employees linked with their employer and prevent high levels of unemployment, a labour…
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Challenges to increase the circularity of the Northern Ireland economy
Northern Ireland’s economy is only 7.9 per cent circular, leaving a 92 per cent circularity gap. If the economy is…
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More fiscal devolution for Northern Ireland?
Chair of the independent Fiscal Commission NI, Paul Johnson, talks to David Whelan about the case for the partial devolution…
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Northern Ireland’s productivity gap
Research Fellow with the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum at Queen’s University Belfast, David Jordan outlines the key causes of Northern…
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Horizon Europe: ‘Plan B’
Northern Ireland is at risk of being excluded from the world’s largest international research programme as a result of the…
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10X Economy: Minister Gordon Lyons MLA
New Economy Minister Gordon Lyons MLA speaks to David Whelan about recovery from the pandemic, plans to boost consumer confidence,…
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Connecting Northern Ireland and growing the economy
Delivering a full fibre broadband service to homes and businesses in rural Northern Ireland, which has previously been starved of…
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Pre-pandemic return restricted
While the reopening of further sectors of the economy is expected to generate a significant uplift in economic output for…
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NI Water: Innovation over mitigation
NI Water’s Director of Business Services, Alistair Jinks, discusses how NI Water is going beyond simply mitigating against climate change…
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The cost of the shift
Co-director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, Paul Mac Flynn, outlines the ongoing shifts in the economy, some of which…
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