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Aviation trends, Government Policy and Ireland’s airports
Introduction The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is preparing a new Regional Airports Programme 2020-2024 and has sought the views of stakeholders. The WDC has made a submission which is available for download here. The WDC views are set out … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Airports, Aviation, CSO, Data, economic sectors, Infrastructure, Regional policy, Regional Statistics, Transport, Western Region
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Transport, Aviation, Ten-T and Project Ireland 2040
Submission to Review of TEN-T The Department of Transport has recently published its submission to the European Commission on proposed revisions of the TEN-T network see here. The Department advocate for the inclusion of the Atlantic seaboard region of Ireland … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure
Tagged CSO, Data, economic sectors, Infrastructure, Transport
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Transportation & Storage Sector in the Western Region
The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the last in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analysed the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identified key policy issues.[1] The final … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Sectors, Employment, Enterprise
Tagged Business Demography, Census 2016, CSO, Data, economic sectors, employment, Enterprise, labour market, WDC Insights, Western Region
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Size matters: relative changes in regional economies
In the last post on this topic I examined some of the recent trends in regional GDP. In this post, that analysis is continued, with a focus on the changing share of national Gross Value Added (GVA)[i] coming from each … Continue reading
Posted in GDP, Uncategorized
Tagged Census, CSO data, Data, Regional GDP, Regional policy
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Professional Services in the Western Region
The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the latest in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analyses the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identifies key policy issues.[1] This report … Continue reading
Our 5th Birthday! 5 years of the WDC Insights Blog
Five years ago today we published the first WDC Insights blog post. This special anniversary post today is our 208th post. As we noted in the celebration for our 200th post, the blog covers a wider range of topics from … Continue reading
WDC submission to the Public Consultation on the development of the trans European transport network (TEN-T)
Introduction Since 1993 the EU holds responsibility on infrastructure policy – in the fields of transport, energy and telecommunications. In the transport sector, Europe’s TEN-T policy aims to boost economic, social and territorial cohesion between all Member States and their … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Transport
Tagged Data, economic sectors, Infrastructure, Transport
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The Public Administration & Defence Sector in the Western Region
The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the 9th in its Regional Sectoral Profile series which analyse employment in different economic sectors in the Western Region. And this one is of particular interest to us, as it’s the sector … Continue reading
Recent Trends in Regional GDP
With the Irish economy again experiencing a period of significant expansion (it is estimated to have grown by 6.7% in 2018) it is important to consider how different Irish are regions doing in this time of growth. While this was … Continue reading
200th WDC Insights blog post – Our Top 5!
It is hard to believe but this is our 200th post since the Policy Analysis team’s WDC Insights blog was first launched on 25th July 2014. Over the last (almost) five years and 200 posts we have addressed everything from … Continue reading