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Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation activities - including such items as reducing material use...
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An estimate of the contribution of the biosector to Ireland’s net foreign earnings in 2008 was recently published by … the Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables for Ireland. The 'biosector' comprises the agriculture, forestry and fishing … consistency with other statistics for the economy and with results for earlier years. For example, when previous results for 2005 …
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Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation on firm performance. The paper provides insights...
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This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
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This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265349
This paper looks at the reform of poor relief in Dublin (the capital city of the then Irish Free State) in the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, it examines the introduction of the Poor Relief (Dublin) Act, 1929 and the role of political parties and interest groups in shaping its final outcome....
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will outline the levels of expenditure and throughput on labour market programmes and attempt to place Ireland in a …
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The relatively few studies of the Irish social welfare system have focused mainly on the forces behind the introduction of social welfare schemes rather than the impact which these schemes had in demographic and labour market terms. This note presents a preliminary examination of the issues and...
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The Paper gives a brief overview over the social economy in Ireland, presenting this against the background of the …
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degree of uncertainty. The results are also consistent with previous research in the Central Bank of Ireland which stresses a …
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