Introduction
The country analysis report on Ireland provides a wide array of analytical inputs to analyze the country's performance, and the objective is to help the reader to make business decisions and prepare for the future. The report on Ireland analyzes the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure of Ireland. The report provides a holistic view of Ireland from historical, current and future perspective. Insightful analysis on critical current and future issues is presented through detailed SCPT (strengths, challenges, prospects and threats /risks) analysis for each of the PESTLE segments. In addition, the PESTLE segments are supplemented with relevant quantitative data to support trend analysis. The PESTLE country analysis report series provides an in-depth analysis of 50 major countries.
Features and Benefits
• Understanding gained from the country analysis report on Ireland can be used to plan business investments or market entry apart from a holistic view of the country.
• Political section on Ireland provides inputs about the political system, key figures in the country, and governance indicators.
• Economic section on Ireland outlines the economic story of the country to provide a balanced assessment on core macro-economic issues.
• Social section on Ireland enables understanding of customer demographics through the income distribution, rural-urban segmentation and centres of affluence, healthcare and educational scenario in the country.
• Technological section on Ireland provides strategic inputs on information communications and technology, technological laws and policies, technological gaps, patents data and relevant laws.
• Legal section on Ireland provides information about the legal structure, corporate laws, business set-up procedures and the tax regime.
• Environmental section provides information on environmental policies in Ireland and the performance in terms of important environmental indicators.
Highlights
PESTLE analysis of Ireland identifies issues that affect the country's performance through the prism of current strengths (strengths), current challenges (weaknesses), future prospects (opportunities) and future risks (threats).
The political landscape discusses the evolution of the political scenario in Ireland in different periods. The economic, social, foreign and defence policies are considered in the political landscape section. It also discusses the performance of the country as per World Bank Governance Indicators.
The economic landscape describes the evolution of the economy of Ireland in different periods. It also examines 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 economic landscape also explains the financial system in the country, especially with regard to financial authorities/regulators.
The social landscape covers the demographics, education and healthcare scenario in Ireland. The social welfare policies of the government along with the country's performance in terms of healthcare, income distribution and education are also provided.
The technological landscape discusses the structure and policies in terms of Intellectual property, research & development, technology agreements/pacts; and policies related to the promotion of technology in Ireland.
The legal landscape examines the structure of the judicial system, legislation affecting businesses, tax regulations, labor laws, trade regulations and corporate governance in Ireland.
The environmental landscape in Ireland discusses the environmental regulations and policies of the country. The performance of the country in terms of in terms of envir