Irish Economic Growth, 1945-88

Cormac O'Gráda and Kevin O'Rourke
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Cormac Ó Gráda

No 975, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The paper reviews the economic performance of the Republic of Ireland since 1945. Its focus is comparative: Ireland's record is assessed against the evidence in OECD and Penn Mark V datasets for a `convergence club' of European economies, and is found wanting. The comparison confirms that the 1950s were a particularly bleak decade for Ireland but, more surprisingly, Ireland also performed less well than predicted by convergence criteria in both 1960-73 and 1973-88. The paper then assesses a range of explanations for this poor performance.

Keywords: Convergence; Economic Growth; Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N1 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994-06
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