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The Irish economy has undergone an extensive transformation in the past several decades. At an all-time low in the mid 1980’s, Ireland’s unemployment rate reached 17 percent, job growth averaged -1.3 percent, and net emigration soared, peaking at forty-four thousand in 1989. Even until the early 1980’s Ireland remained a traditional, agricultural economy that seemed almost resistant to the industrialization process that was sweeping its neighboring countries. This state of economic depression is now contrasted to Ireland’s uninterrupted span of economic success that ignited in the early 1990’s. How was Ireland able to double its per capita income in just 11 years? And how did it come to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union? With such an impressive performance, this is truly the work of a “Celtic Tiger”. | The Irish economy has undergone an extensive transformation in the past several decades. At an all-time low in the mid 1980’s, Ireland’s unemployment rate reached 17 percent, job growth averaged -1.3 percent, and net emigration soared, peaking at forty-four thousand in 1989. Even until the early 1980’s Ireland remained a traditional, agricultural economy that seemed almost resistant to the industrialization process that was sweeping its neighboring countries. This state of economic depression is now contrasted to Ireland’s uninterrupted span of economic success that ignited in the early 1990’s. How was Ireland able to double its per capita income in just 11 years? And how did it come to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union? At one point considered one of the poorest countries in the world, Ireland is now amount the richest in the EU. With such an impressive performance, this is truly the work of a “Celtic Tiger”. | ||
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The Irish economy has undergone an extensive transformation in the past several decades. At an all-time low in the mid 1980’s, Ireland’s unemployment rate reached 17 percent, job growth averaged -1.3 percent, and net emigration soared, peaking at forty-four thousand in 1989. Even until the early 1980’s Ireland remained a traditional, agricultural economy that seemed almost resistant to the industrialization process that was sweeping its neighboring countries. This state of economic depression is now contrasted to Ireland’s uninterrupted span of economic success that ignited in the early 1990’s. How was Ireland able to double its per capita income in just 11 years? And how did it come to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union? At one point considered one of the poorest countries in the world, Ireland is now amount the richest in the EU. With such an impressive performance, this is truly the work of a “Celtic Tiger”.
