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David Thorpe

Opinion: can social partnership agreements be part of the deficit solution?

By David Thorpe | Fri 1st October 2010 - 2:47 pm

My native Ireland enjoyed a period of unprecedented economic growth in the late ‘90s and early nougties, and while many of the reasons are similar to the reasons Britain enjoyed periodic growth in the same period, one factor in the growth which was unique to Ireland were the use of Social Partnership agreements.

These agreements were principally negotiated between the private sector employers, the government in a dual role as both government and large employer, the unions and social groups and organisations.

Agreements such as these typically last about four years, and the benefit to the economy is that there is a …

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