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We provide a centennial overview of the Irish economy in the one hundred years following partition and independence. A comparative perspective allows us to distinguish between those aspects of Irish policies and performance that were unique to the country, and those which mirrored developments...
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We provide a centennial overview of the Irish economy in the one hundred years following partition and independence. A comparative perspective allows us to distinguish between those aspects of Irish policies and performance that were unique to the country, and those which mirrored developments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604968
of ‘cohesion’ countries. Ireland and Portugal stand out as the two extreme examples, as Ireland caught-up to the …
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This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The … new series is deployed to revisit Ireland's economic performance in the post-independence decades. Ireland's economy grew … growing number of studies that suggest that Ireland was poorer at independence than previously believed. …
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convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world. Since 1973, with … petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland began to grow at …
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convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world. Since 1973, with … petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland began to grow at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005120804
The paper examines the evolution of income per capita for a sample of high-income transition countries in the period 1991-2007. The analysis focuses on the dynamics of income per capita convergence throughout the period. We review patterns of income dispersion in Central Europe in a historical...
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This research examines problems surrounding procedures of fiscal policy and their influence on economic growth in Nigeria from 1970 - 2009. Theory envisage that fiscal policy can impinge on economic growth by changing motivation for investment and labour as well as by altering after-tax proceeds...
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After a brief introduction dealing with critical opinions of some economists on the European austerity policy, the authors point out that austerity as a means of achieving fiscal consolidation and financial stability is applied when the fiscal domain is weak. After analyzing the effects of the...
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respond to global crisis that hit Hungary hard, the Bajnai government enacted a series of economic reforms and spending cuts …
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