The Irish economy in transition successes, problems, and prospects

The transformation of Ireland from one of the poorer countries in Western Europe to one of the best performing is one of the most remarkable economic success stories in recent times. The ten papers in this collection were presented at a conference at Lehigh University in March 2001. Written from a b...

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Other Authors: Munley, Vincent., Thornton, Robert J. 1943-, Aronson, J. Richard 1937-
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Oxford ; Boston : JAI, 2002.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Contemporary studies in economic and financial analysis ; v. 85.
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ISBN: 0762309792 (alk. paper)
9781849501873 (electronic bk.) :
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 257 p.) : ill., maps.

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505 0 |a The Irish economy in transition / Vincent G. Munley, Robert J. Thornton -- Fiscal policy and the public finances : creative approaches to pension funding / John McHale -- Privatization of electricity and telecommunications in Ireland / Moore McDowell -- Has Ireland outgrown its clothes? Infrastructural and environmental constraints in Ireland / John Fitz Gerald -- Ireland in the 1990s : the problem of unbalanced regional development / Michael J. Keane -- Ireland's social safety net / Eithne Fitzgerald -- The celtic tiger : a view from the trenches of academia / Michael P. Mortell -- Foreign direct investment : the case of the electronics and pharmaceuticals industries / Joe Durkan -- The Irish economy : recent experience and prospects / Mark Cassidy -- Nurturing indigenous entrepreneurship in Ireland : the case of the it software sector / Connell Fanning, Ciaran Murphy -- Monetary and fiscal policy in EMU / Rodney Thom. 
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