Economy & Finance Blog Archive

Here you will find an archive of Economy & Finance Blog articles published before 1 January 2020, divided into their relevant categories.

Economy

Cover pages of the 2012 Economic Strategy and 2017 draft Industrial Strategy

From an economic to an industrial strategy

Reading Time: 5 minutes Following on from a recent blog post on ‘a revised strategy for Northern Ireland’s Economy’, this post looks at the Department for the Economy’s draft Industrial Strategy and highlights some of the key similarities and

23rd March 2017

World Trade Organization public forum in 2016

World Trade Organisation and the implications for Northern Ireland trade

Reading Time: 5 minutes During a House of Commons debate on Article 50 in February 2017, Brexit Minister, David Jones, confirmed that if the UK failed to secure a deal with the EU during negotiations, it would fall back

23rd March 2017

Copy of the Northern Ireland Executive’s Economic Strategy and the Programme for Government Consultation Document

A revised strategy for Northern Ireland’s Economy

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eóin Murphy, Michael Scholes, and Aidan Stennett The Northern Ireland Executive is currently revising its Economic Strategy. What are the key factors it should take into consideration when carrying out this revision?

6th December 2016

Employment & Labour Market

Recent changes in the Northern Ireland labour market

Reading Time: 3 minutes Northern Ireland (NI) was impacted heavily by the global recession that began in 2008. The recovery since has been slow in the United Kingdom (UK) and even slower in NI. With heavy job losses in

11th May 2016

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