Spending on health and continuing to fund the State pension age at 65 will inevitably add a significant amount to Ireland’s debt, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said.

Spending on health and continuing to fund the State pension age at 65 will add significant amounts to Ireland’s debt, the OECD has said.

Tens of billions in repayments of debt by multinationals based in Ireland to their parent companies overseas led to disinvestments from Ireland in the first half of the year, according to the OECD.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned a disorderly Brexit “could plunge the Irish economy into a recession” and that further surges in Irish property prices could lead to another boom-to-bust cycle.

Ireland is reaching targets in relation to available water, economic productivity and carbon emissions coming up to 2030 but falls down when it comes to areas like smoking and access to education, according to a major report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Providing access to computers in schools is not enough and governments will need to review life-long teaching to keep up with the pace of automation that threatens many jobs, according to a major report.

Ireland's economy has been ranked as 14th in the world when it comes to innovation, according to the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index.

World economy forecast to grow by 3.5% in 2019,

Economic activity is forecasted to "remain robust, but to ease gradually" next year.

A UK digital tax targeting tech giants such as Amazon, Google, and Apple will likely undermine efforts by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to marshal opposition to a similar plan from the European Commission for an EU-wide tax.

Both the OECD and IMF recently revised down their growth forecasts for the world economy in 2018 and 2019.

There is a sense, but only time will tell if it’s more than wishful thinking, that some of the shibboleths that choked this society for so very long are, a full century after we achieved independence, being shaken off.

One of the conventions of polite society is that certain subjects are not discussed.

The Central Bank may need to be ready to tighten its controls over mortgage lending amid “some signs” the economy is over-heating and could be heading toward another property price bubble, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said.

An improved outlook for world economic growth will be placed at severe risk if a trade war results from US metal tariffs, a report has warned.

The chief of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — a regular visitor during the financial crisis — has warned that, despite an impressive economic recovery, Ireland should never forget it’s a small country that belongs to “the Avis Club”.

The Government should consider introducing a higher property tax rate on properties left vacant in city areas and also ease off on self-certification of developments.

Irish workers could be forced to pay 10% of their wages into a new pension scheme.

Interest rate setters face a "difficult balancing act" amid the threat of a potential housing market correction and risks to the wider economy from raising borrowing costs, according to an influential think tank.

Ireland is highly compliant with new international tax rules and is one of only three countries worldwide to have the highest levels of transparency in its domestic tax system, according to international financial monitoring body the OECD.

Last year we celebrated one of the foundation events of this Republic. During the year some people questioned the validity and outcomes of 1916. Those reservations were drowned like a litter of unwanted pups in a sea of flag-waving and cheers. 

A modest recovery underway in the global economy is at risk from economic nationalism and diverging central bank policies, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said as it forecast only a slight pick-up in growth.

The European Central Bank should ease monetary policy further if inflation does not begin rising as expected, and governments should find ways to snuff out non-performing bank loans to help economies reap the full benefits of ECB stimulus, the OECD said yesterday.

The OECD — the international think tank — said the Government should do more for Irish indigenous SMEs as it highlighted small firms here pay among the highest borrowing costs in the eurozone.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is convening a meeting of tax officials from around the world in Paris on April 13 to figure out what to do about the Panama Papers disclosures.

On Thursday, the markets widely expect the ECB to move its official deposit rate deeper into negative territory, cutting it to possibly as low as -0.5%.

The OECD has chopped its growth outlook, and in a hard-hitting report echoed many of the worries of financial markets about the health of the global economy.

Pfizer is negotiating a 2%-3% break-up fee with Allergan that would be in line with most deals, according to sources, a sign of confidence such a merger could overcome regulatory hurdles.

Pfizer’s talks to acquire botox-maker Allergan in a $150bn (€140.8bn) deal, the global drug industry’s largest ever, that would see the US drug giant re-domicile in Ireland accelerated yesterday, even as the US Treasury prepared to clamp down further on such tax inversions.

Any Greeks hoping their days of economic pain are over following the latest bailout agreement with international lenders should look to the dire projections from Europe’s three main institutional forecasters for a reality check.

The OECD is warning that a strong rise in Ireland's property prices recently may boost construction activity in the short-term, but risks a return to another property bubble.

The OECD yesterday predicted the Irish economy will continue to grow strongly, but the Paris-based think- tank warned that the country faces “significant risks”, including another property bubble, as the crisis years are put behind.

Many Irish people might feel that this flurry of attention on an OECD project about the taxation of companies is irrelevant in the run-up to the budget on October 13.

The Finance Minister Michael Noonan has hit out at budget controls in the health system

This week, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) published its latest survey on the Irish economy and it makes for pretty constructive and optimistic reading.