For the period 1972-2003 in Ireland we document a persistent decline in traditional import competing and an expansion …

respond and which exposed Ireland to a worse crisis than might otherwise have occurred. Three institutional clusters are … public administration system; and the management of the domestic cost base. In all three, urgent priorities for reform are …

As with all aspects of public management, the control, financing and regulation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are …, the issues of state-owned enterprise ownership, management and financing are addressed in this paper. Findings from two …

Ireland and Britain, and Greece and Spain. …