These burdens included unemployment, fiscal deficits, declining foreign exchange and the widening external deficit between the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Government debt and deficit were skyrocketing, investments were stagnant and, undeterred by emigration, and unemployment was on the rise (Government of Ireland, 1987). ...

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