Regulatory Reform in Ireland 2001

""Foreword""
 ""Acknowledgements""
 ""Table of Contents""
 ""Part I""
 ""Executive summary""
 ""Chapter 1. Regulatory Reform in Ireland""
 ""Introduction""
 ""Regularoy reform is helping Ireland to manage the consequences of fast growth, and to build new capacities to sustain growth ""
 ""The reform agenda in Ireland is more complex than traditionnal deregulation, because it involves large-scale change to domest""
 ""Box 1.1. What is regulation and regulatory reform?""
 ""The macroeconomic context for sectoral regulatory reform"" ""Ireland's economic traditions were protection and domestic monopolies...""""...in which agriculture was the dominant sector...""
 ""...and state ownership became increasingly prevalent""
 ""Table 1.1. The rise and fall of state-owned enterprises in Ireland""
 ""With membership in the European Union, the policy bias toward producer interests began to be balanced by consumer interests a""
 ""The Irish model became increasingly embattled in the 1980s with financial difficulties and recession...""
 ""�which induced privatisation, reduction of state aids, and even some deregulation"" ""The turning point came in the 1990s""""The remarkable economic resurgence of Ireland was due mostly to the fundamentals...""
 ""�such as free investment and trade, which became more significant as the European market developed...""
 ""�infrastructure investment�""
 ""�investment in human capital, combined with a rising labour supply...""
 ""Figure 1.1. Female labour force participation""
 ""�agreements among the social partners for pay moderation...""
 ""�combined with relatively labour markets""
 ""Figure 1.2. Birth rate""
 ""Box 1.2. Social partnership in Ireland"" ""Economic impacts of sectoral regulatory reform""""By the end of 1997, Ireland was one of the less regulated OECD countries in terms of barriers to entry and entrepreneurship, ""
 ""The underlying policy biases of producer over consumer interests, and of control over competition, still linger in some areas""
 ""Creation of the Competitiveness Council, and the work of Forfas, have been useful in raising awareness of the broader benefit""
 ""Table 1.2. Sectoral regulatory reforms in Ireland"" ""Assessing the impacts of recent regulatory reforms in Ireland is not easy, but reforms seem already to contribute to the coun""""Table 1.3. Economic effects of sectoral regulatory reform""
 ""EU integration, European liberalising and market openness reforms, and now the EMU are playing a vital role in Irish economic""
 ""Transport costs are important for Irish competitiveness...""
 ""�however, littke progress has been made in improving the competitiveness of Irish ports...""
 ""�in contrast to road freight...""
 ""�airlines...""
 ""�and airports...""