The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published a series of eight infographics showing of key statistics for the Western Region and each of its seven counties. The data is from the CSO’s Census of Population in 2016 with analysis … Continue reading
While my previous post on county incomes (based on the CSO’s publications County Incomes and Regional GDP, 2015) considered the changes in Disposable Income over time, in this post I look at the components of Disposable Income, some of the … Continue reading
The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published two WDC Insights: How are we doing? County Incomes in the Western Region and What’s happening in our regional economies? Growth and Change in Regional GVA. Both of these examine data from … Continue reading
The WDC is sponsoring this year’s Annual Conference of the Irish Branch of the Regional Studies Association. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘City Led Regional Development and Peripheral Regions’ and takes place on Friday, 7th September at IT … Continue reading
In the last blog post on this subject, Leprechauns in Invisible Regions, the very significant changes in GVA and GDP[1] at a regional level between 2014 and 2015 were discussed. These largely applied in manufacturing, with a national growth in … Continue reading
Regional GVA (GDP)[1] figures for 2015, and preliminary figures for 2016, were published recently by the CSO. The 2015 figures are of particular interest as that year (the year of leprechaun economics), there was a level shift in the size … Continue reading
The CSO has recently published Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for Irish regions (NUTS3) for 2014. This publication updates the preliminary figures for 2014 which were published last year (and also makes some changes to the 2013 figures) but it … Continue reading
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