Country Analysis Report: Ireland, In-depth PESTLE Insights
Summary
This PESTLE country analysis report on Ireland provides a holistic view of the country, with insightful analysis of current and future issues, supplemented with relevant quantitative data to support trend analysis.
Synopsis
• Understand the political system in Ireland through analysis of key figures in the country and governance indicators.
• Understand the economic situation in Ireland through a balanced assessment of core macroeconomic issues.
• Understand customer demographics in Ireland through analysis of income distribution and the rural-urban split, as well as healthcare and education.
• Understand the technological landscape in Ireland through analysis of relevant laws and policies, as well as patents data.
Reasons To Buy
What is the outlook in Ireland in terms of political stability, policies towards business, and the popularity of the government?
How does Ireland perform in terms of GDP growth, its fiscal situation, international investment position, monetary situation, and employment?
How does Ireland perform in terms of healthcare, income distribution, and education?
How does Ireland perform in terms of technology-intensive sectors like IT, life sciences, and R&D expenditure trends?
Key Highlights
• The political landscape section discusses the evolution of the political scenario in Ireland, as well as the country's economic, social, foreign, and defense policies. The section also discusses the country's performance according to World Bank Governance Indicators.
• The economic landscape section outlines the evolution of Ireland's economy, as well as the country's performance in terms of GDP growth, composition by sector (agriculture, industry, and services), fiscal situation, international investment position, monetary situation, credit disbursement, banking sector, and employment.
• The social landscape section analyzes the government's social welfare policies, as well as the country's performance in terms of healthcare, income distribution, and education.
- Overview
- Catalyst
- Summary
- Key findings
- PESTLE highlights
- Key fundamentals
- Key Facts and Geographic Location
- Key facts
- Geographic location
- PESTLE analysis
- Summary
- Political analysis
- Overview
- Current strengths
- Current challenges
- Future prospects
- Future risks
- Economic analysis
- Overview
- Current strengths
- Current challenges
- Future prospects
- Future risks
- Social analysis
- Overview
- Current strengths;
- Current challenges
- Future prospects
- Future risks
- Technological analysis
- Overview
- Current strengths
- Current challenges
- Future prospects
- Future risks
- Legal analysis
- Overview
- Current strengths
- Current challenges
- Future prospects
- Environmental analysis
- Overview
- Current strengths
- Current challenges
- Future prospects
- Future risks
- Political Landscape
- Summary
- Evolution
- Pre-1950s
- 1950–90
- 1991 onwards
- Structure and policies
- Key political figures
- Structure of government
- Structure of legislature
- Key policies
- Performance
- Governance indicators
- Outlook
- Economic Landscape
- Summary
- Evolution
- 1949–89
- 1990–2000
- 2001 onwards
- Structure and policies
- Financial system
- Performance
- GDP and growth rate
- GDP composition by sector
- Fiscal situation
- Current account
- Exports and imports
- External debt
- International investment position
- Credit rating
- Key monetary indicators
- Monetary situation
- Employment
- Outlook
- Social Landscape
- Summary
- Evolution
- Structure and policies
- Demographic composition
- Education
- Healthcare
- Social welfare
- Performance
- Healthcare
- Income distribution
- Education
- Outlook
- Technological Landscape
- Summary
- Evolution
- Structure and policies
- Intellectual property
- R&D
- Performance
- Telecom and Internet
- Outlook
- Legal Landscape
- Summary
- Evolution
- Structure and policies
- Judicial system
- Taxation
- Performance
- Effectiveness of the legal system
- Outlook
- Environmental Landscape
- Summary
- Evolution
- Structure and policies
- Environmental regulations
- Environmental actions
- Performance
- Environmental impact
- Outlook
- Appendix
- Ask the analyst
- Disclaimer List of Tables Table 1: Ireland - key indicators
- Table 2: Ireland - key facts
- Table 3: Analysis of Ireland's political landscape
- Table 4: Analysis of the Irish economy
- Table 4: Analysis of Ireland's social system
- Table 5: Analysis of Ireland's technology landscape
- Table 6: Analysis of Ireland's legal landscape
- Table 7: Analysis of Ireland's environmental landscape
- Table 8: Ireland's mid-year population (as a percentage of total population), 2015
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Ireland - key indicators
- Table 2: Ireland - key facts
- Table 3: Analysis of Ireland's political landscape
- Table 4: Analysis of the Irish economy
- Table 4: Analysis of Ireland's social system
- Table 5: Analysis of Ireland's technology landscape
- Table 6: Analysis of Ireland's legal landscape
- Table 7: Analysis of Ireland's environmental landscape
- Table 8: Ireland's mid-year population (as a percentage of total population), 2015
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Map of Ireland
- Figure 2: Lending to non-financial private sector
- Figure 3: High amount of NPLs, 2014Q4
- Figure 4: Ireland competitiveness indicators, 2010-14
- Figure 5: Real effective exchange rate (percentage change over one year)
- Figure 6: Tax subsidy rates on R&D expenditures, 2015
- Figure 7: OECD, barriers to entrepreneurship,2013
- Figure 8: Ireland - political events timeline
- Figure 9: Ireland - key political figures
- Figure 10: Evolution of GDP growth in Ireland, 2005-15
- Figure 11: Real GDP and GDP growth rate in Ireland, 2010-20f
- Figure 12: Sector composition of GDP in Ireland, 2015f
- Figure 13: Ireland's agricultural output, 2010-15
- Figure 14: Ireland's industrial output, 2010-15
- Figure 15: Ireland's services output, 2010-15
- Figure 16: Ireland's external trade, 2010-15f
- Figure 17: Consumer price index-based inflation in Ireland, 2010-20f
- Figure 18: Unemployment in Ireland, 2010-20f
- Figure 19: Expenditure on healthcare in Ireland, 2008-14
- Figure 20: Internet users and growth rate in Ireland, 2010-14
- Figure 21: Carbon dioxide emissions in Ireland, 2006-13