All the chapters and the statistical data have been updated where possible. There is an abundance of new material relating to important issues such as: - Economic stabilisation and recovery in the late 1980s and the reasons for the 'Celtic Tiger' growth rates achieved in the 1990s. - Unemployment and inflation - Cost and benefits of European Monetary Union, convergence and recent developments relating to the introduction of a single currenty - National wage agreements - Exchange and interest rate determination The discussion of Irish economic performance is conducted in a comparative framework making extensive use of data from other countries in the European Union and Northern Ireland.
- ISBN10 0717122891
- ISBN13 9780717122899
- Publish Date 31 August 1996 (first published 31 December 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1998
- Publish Country IE
- Publisher Gill
- Imprint Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English