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Ireland was the first state in the eurozone to enter recession, as declared by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). [8] By January 2009, the number of people living on unemployment benefits had risen to 326,000—the highest monthly level since records began in 1967—and the unemployment rate rose from 6.5% in July 2008 to 14.8% in July 2012 ...
The Irish economy expanded at an average rate of 9.4% between 1995 and 2000, and continued to grow at an average rate of 5.9% during the following decade until 2008, when it fell into recession. Ireland's rapid economic growth has been described as a rare example of a Western country matching the growth of East Asian nations, i.e. the ' Four ...
The economic history of the Republic of Ireland effectively began in 1922, when the then Irish Free State won independence from the United Kingdom. [2] The state was plagued by poverty and emigration until the 1960s when an upturn led to the reversal of long term population decline .
From 1990 to 2000, the Irish gross national product (GNP) per capita rose 58%, bringing it above the European Union average. [9] The pace of expansion in lending to households from 2003 to 2007 was among the highest in the Eurozone , [ 10 ] with German banks having US$208.3 billion in total exposure to Ireland. [ 11 ]
The recession affected the European Union during 2000 and 2001 and the United States from March to November 2001. [1] The UK, Canada and Australia avoided the recession, while Russia, a nation that did not experience prosperity during the 1990s, began to recover from it. [citation needed] Japan's 1990s recession continued. A combination of the ...
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
The recession data for the overall G20 zone (representing 85% of all GWP), depict that the Great Recession existed as a global recession throughout Q3 2008 until Q1 2009. Subsequent follow-up recessions in 2010–2013 were confined to Belize, El Salvador, Paraguay, Jamaica, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand and 24 out of 50 European countries ...
Ireland's economic history starts at the end of the Ice Age when the first humans arrived there. Agriculture then came around 4500 BC. Iron technology came with the Celts around 350 BC. From the 12th century to the 1970s, most Irish exports went to England. During this period, Ireland's main exports were foodstuffs.