Ireland’s growth at 20-year low

Ireland, easily the best-performing European economy since the start of the decade, will see gross national product growth of 1.6 per cent in 2008, the lowest rate since 1988, according to a gloomy report from the country’s leading independent think-tank, the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Economic and Social Research Institute: Quarterly Economic Commentary, Spring 2008: Executive Summary http://www.esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/20080313115524/QEC2008Spr_ES.pdf

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