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ESRI says Ireland's economy to grow significantly with inflation estimated to be around 7%
Inflation is set to increase but unemployment is to drop.
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Inflation is set to increase but unemployment is to drop.
Marc Ó Cathasaigh of the Green Party outlines why he believes the future of growth measurement will be more than GDP.
Consumer spending, which was down 0.7%, was affected by rising prices, especially for energy.
The domestic economy is set to have increased by 6.2%, due to an increase in household spending.
The world’s second-largest economy grew by a weaker-than-expected 4.9% in the three months to September.
The significant increase was driven by a 10% increase in the export of goods and services.
The business group says that Ireland is in a “post-recovery stage”.
The ESRI has called for a new method of calculating national accounts to tell if the economy is at risk of overheating.
A new ESRI report looks at how the possible Brexit scenarios will affect Ireland.
TheJournal.ie’s GE16 FactCheck tests a prominent claim by the government parties.
The country just posted its lowest growth in a quarter century.
Growth has been ‘exceptionally strong’ so far this year, but jobs and wages haven’t caught up.
It’s the first time since the financial crisis that the economy has been in decline.
Ireland can look to the UK and US for signs of what’s to come.
The country’s central bank cut interest rates to a record low today.
The taxes are rollin’ in for Michael Noonan.
That’s according to the latest predictions from the IMF.
The Central Bank’s latest forecasts are all pretty good.
Ireland has learnt a ‘difficult lesson’ from the financial crisis.
The IMF has cut its economic predictions for the next two years.
And China will become the world’s biggest economic powerhouse within a decade, according to the CEBR.
But at least things are looking good for jobs and the economy.
The country’s still on target to meet its Budget forecasts.
So much for being the “poster child” of Europe.
There will be no new ECB spending spree this month – despite growth forecasts being slashed.
There’s more positive economic news out today.
The number of people living with dementia has more than doubled from about 3.68 million in 1990 to 9.2 million in 2010.
Almost one in four now think that the economy is stagnating.
But growth in Dublin is outstripping growth in rural areas.
Oxfam won a PR coup this week with the simple line that the richest 85 people in the world have more wealth than the poorest 3.5 billion. But there’s one problem with that message – inequality isn’t actually keeping people in poverty.
Growth next year will depend on what happens outside Ireland, according to the ESRI.
Ruairí Quinn said there is still a long way to go…
The Budget is less than a month away, the economy shrank in the last quarter but the number of people in work has increased. Are you confident?
The fourth quarter of last year showed almost no change in GDP compared with 2011 while GNP declined by 0.8 per cent in Q4.
All of that, and the Seanad gets to reform the Dáil… here’s what’s happening today in Leinster House.
Figures from Eurostat confirm initial estimates in February that the eurozone economy shrank by 0.6 per cent in Q4 of 2012 with the EU shrinking by 0.5 per cent.
The ESRI said the driving force behind the reduction in unemployment is ongoing net emigration.
That might not sound like much, but the eurozone as a whole shrank by 0.1 per cent in the same period.
Our blind faith in growing the economy may be ignoring some important facts, writes Dermot McNally.
Hadn’t you noticed? Eurozone GDP fell by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2012.