Irish economic growth, 1945-1988

Cormac Ó Gráda and Kevin O'Rourke

No 199327, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

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 data sets 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 1960-1973 and 1973-1988. The paper then assesses a range of explanations for this poor performance.

Keywords: Economic growth; Convergence; Ireland; Ireland--Economic conditions--20th century; Ireland--Economic policy; Convergence (Economics)--Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-10
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