Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth

FRANK BARRY is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College Dublin. He holds an MA from the University of Essex and a Ph.D. from Queen's University in Canada. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Stockholm, California and New South Wales, and served for a time as Trade and Industry advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the Harvard Institute for International Development. His publications are in the fields of macroeconomics and international trade.

• List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; F.Barry The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth; F.Barry, A.Hannan & E.A.Strobl Recent Irish Growth in Historical and Theoretical Perspective; F.Barry Indigenous and Foreign Industry: Characteristics and Performance; F.Barry, J.Bradley & E.O'Malley Fiscal Adjustment and Disinflation in Ireland: Setting the Macro Basis of Economic Recovery and Expansion; P.Honohan The European Dimension: The Single Market and the Structural Funds; F.Barry, J. Bradley & A.Hannan Education and Growth in the Irish Economy; J.Durkan, D.FitzGerald & C.Harmon Wage Formation and the Labour Market; J.FitzGerald Income Inequality in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s; T.Callan & B.Nolan The Persistence of High Unemployment in a Small Open Labour Market: The Irish Case; B.Walsh Index

'This book is a fundamental reference for understanding the reasons behind the remarkably successful performance of the Irish economy in recent years and for uncovering the keys to its future development...The authors display an outstanding ability to combine the rigour of economic principles and a sophisticated empirical analysis with a deep knowledge of the Irish economy and its institututions...Reading it will prove of great value to academics, policymakers, private-sector economists and, more generally, to all those interested in the Irish economy.' - Jose Vinals, Head of Monetary and Financial Studies, Banco de Espana 'This collection of papers is excellent. It should be required reading for every economist interested in catch-up and convergence in economic growth.' - Nick Crafts, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics