1. Reasons behind the Irish Celtic Tiger
... head had grown by an average 1.8 per cent per year. The fact that we were bottom of the growth league in comparison with our neighbours suggests under-achievement in this interlude. However, GDP data in the 1950-1998 period as a unit suggests that Ireland was on track', in the sense that it grew as fast as an economy with its 1950 ... N.I., the conditions for an economic recovery in Ireland were right. The Tiger's achievement was to capitalise on this situation. Most likely, soon the Tiger years will be remembered as the interlude when Ireland made up all the ground it had lost and beca...
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