OECD Economic Surveys.

Table of contents
 Basic statistics or Ireland, 2012
 Executive summary
 Assessment and recommendations
 Figure 1. Fiscal consolidation and structural reform efforts
 Figure 2. Sovereign risk premia
 Growth recovery and economic rebalancing
 Table 1. Demand, output and prices
 Figure 3. Competitiveness
 Strong adherence to fiscal targets has brought debt closer to a declining path
 Figure 4. Household debt as percentage of disposable income
 Figure 5. Non-financial corporations' debt as percentage of GDP
 Figure 6. Investment intensity in Knowledge-Based Capital. Returning the banking sector to healthTable 2. General government finance
 Figure 7. Fiscal efforts to reduce government debt to 60% of GDP by 2030
 Figure 8. Ratio of non-performing loans to total gross loans
 Risks to the outlook
 Figure 9. Financial conditions
 Box 1. Key recommendations on rebalancing the economy
 Building a pathway towards robust, sustainable and inclusive growth
 Improving the business environment
 Improving the government's expenditure and revenue mix
 Make environmental protection and economic development more mutually supportive. Figure 10. CO2 emissions and real GDP changes, 2000-10Strengthen confidence in government institutions by increasing transparency
 Box 2. Recommendations for reinvigorating growth
 Labour and social policies
 Figure 11. Unemployment by duration
 Figure 12. Employment ratio
 Figure 13. Skills gap index
 Figure 14. NEET rates among youth in European countries
 Labour-market policy reforms are underway
 Figure 15. Population in jobless households
 Table 3. Spending on active labour market programmes
 Training should be demand-driven to foster labour reallocation. More targeted and comprehensive policies for disadvantagedFigure 16. Minimum wage
 Ireland's strong social support system has cushioned the impact on poverty
 Box 3. Recommendations on labour market activation policies
 Improving the environment for innovation and entrepreneurship
 Enhancing the institutional framework for innovation and enterprise supports
 Figure 17. The expanding Irish innovation system
 Figure 18. Government support for research
 Figure 19. Expenditure per student by funding source in the tertiary education system in 2010. Improving framework conditions for innovation and entrepreneursBox 4. Recommendations to foster innovation and entrepreneurship
 Bibliography
 Annex A.1. Progress in structural reform
 Annex A.2. Structural reforms to lift growth
 Table A2.1. Scoresheet: Sustainable inclusive growth
 Table A2.2. Structural levers to lift sustainable, inclusive, growth
 Chapter 1. Getting youth on the job track
 The situation of youth in Ireland's labour market
 Figure 1.1. Youth labour market indicators
 Figure 1.2. Broader measures of young unemployment.