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Tag Archives: economic sectors
Covid 19 Pandemic Unemployment Payments in the Western Region
Continuing our analysis of the economic and social impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic on the Western Region it is useful to look at the number in Western Region counties in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) today, … Continue reading
Business Sectors and Employment in the Western Region: Exploring some potential impacts of the Covid 19 shock
While the detail and scale of the consequences of the Covid-19 containment measures are not yet clear, it is useful to consider, using available data, how the Western Region might be impacted. There are many unknowns including in relation to … Continue reading
Exploring some potential impacts of the Covid 19 shock on the Western Region – revisiting sectoral employment patterns
The Corona virus pandemic and consequent shutdown is bringing, and will bring, a massive economic shock globally, nationally and regionally, but the detail and scale of the consequences are not yet clear. There are many unknowns including in relation … Continue reading
Posted in Covid 19, Employment, Regional Statistics, Uncategorized
Tagged Covid 19, economic sectors, employment, Western Region
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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
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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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Regional Sectoral Profiles: The Complete Collection
A year ago we began publishing a series of ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ of economic sectors in the Western Region. Now, 12 months and 12 reports later, the series is complete! As publication has been spread over a year, I thought … Continue reading
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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New Infographic: Enterprise in the Western Region 2017
The WDC has analysed the latest CSO Business Demography data on enterprises in the Western Region. This data is for 2017 when there were 57,951 total enterprises[1] registered in the seven-county Western Region (location of an enterprise is based on … Continue reading
Posted in Enterprise
Tagged Business Demography, Clare, CSO data, Donegal, economic sectors, Enterprise, enterprises and infographic, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Western Region
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What we do where: Regions, Sectors and GVA
In this final post on regional Gross Value Added (GVA) data, the focus is on the role of different sectors in our regions. As discussed in the previous post, the economic contribution of the regions is related to the size … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Sectors, Regional Development
Tagged CSO, CSO data, economic sectors, labour market
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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