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Focus on Ireland’s Economy
12th April 2011
Ireland is an economy suffering an economic, financial and political crisis. Her freedom to operate an independent macroeconomic policy is constrained by her membership of the single European currency and there are many who doubt that Ireland will be able to achieve a sustained recovery without some form of debt default. Our charts below track some of the key macroeconomic indicators for the Irish economy and below them we have gathered together recent blogs on Irish economic issues.
Real GDP growth and unemployment rate
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Consumer price inflation
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Capital investment as a share of GDP
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Nominal and real house price changes
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.