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		<title>After the Tiger: Active Labour Market Policies in Modern Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 21:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Ó Giobúin]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Activation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALMP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The severity of the economic crisis, coupled with rising unemployment figures, has exerted considerable pressure on stretched social welfare provisions, raising questions on the efficacies of the welfare systems of the state. In particular, it has been queried whether a more proactive approach in returning unemployed jobseekers to the active labour market ought be taken in light of the high proportion of long-term unemployed on the live register, accounting for 40.9 per cent of the entire unemployment rate in 2010 (CSO 2010; Dukelow, 2011, p. 421). In this context, the pursuit of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) has become relevant to the wider economic discussion in Ireland. This article discusses the activation policy approaches adopted in post Celtic Tiger Ireland in relation to the adoption of retrenchment and upskilling measures. While also focusing on the previous development of activation policies in Ireland, this article will also conclude with an evaluation of ALMPs at the present time, and consider the possible future developments in activation measures in a post-recession Ireland. Activation in the Irish Context Activation can best be defined in relation to methods of public expenditure employed in the provision of supports and services for the unemployed, with such expenditure taking on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Water: Economics and Equitability</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 07:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Ó Giobúin]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2015]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Charges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The economics of water is about trying to understand water scarcity and the values of water, as well as how to ensure that our broadly defined needs are understood, that costs and benefits of choices are clear and that the impacts of alternative pricing schedules are clarified (Joyce and Convery, 2009, p. 377). Implying that water is an economic good is not an inherently popular position to take in a society  where, under an ‘absent hand’, people have grown up without the realisation that water is, in fact, an expensive commodity to deliver (Scott, 2003, p. 2). ‘Free Water’ is by nature far from free, costing the Irish exchequer (and by default the taxpayer) over €1 billion a year to supply and maintain (Convery, 2008). Ireland has quickly climbed up the marginal cost curve owing to the fact that water supply paid for by the exchequer has provided no discouragement to excessive and often wasteful usages of water. While the funding of water via direct taxation in a progressive tax system has the feature of enabling payments to be related with one’s ability to pay, it has done little to assuage Ireland’s thirst for water, resulting in a highly inequitable system where those [&#8230;]]]></description>
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