Medium-Term Prospects for Ireland: An Update. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, April 1990

Bradley, John and Baker, T.J. and Scott, S. and Kearney, L.M. and Fitz Gerald, John (1990) Medium-Term Prospects for Ireland: An Update. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, April 1990. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

The Institute publishes its Medium-Term Review approximately every eighteen months. The Review attempts to project likely prospects for the Irish economy, predicated on trends in the world economy and the stance of domestic policy. Since we published our last Review in June 1989, some important and unexpected political events have taken place in Eastern Europe which could have substantial political and economic implications for developments within the EC and Ireland over the next few years. These events were not foreseen when we wrote the Review last June, although many of the other forces determining our future growth have developed as we expected ( e.g., the impending slow-down of the UK economy, relatively buoyant growth in the rest of the EC and the implementation of the EC Structural Fund projects, albeit at a lower level and different timing than envisaged in the National Development Plan 1989-1993).

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