The Celtic Tiger In Distress
Subtitle: Growth with Inequality in Ireland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780333964354
Subjects: Political economy; Political structure & processes; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Ireland; Development - Economic Development; International Relations - General; Political Science / International Relations; 1918-1949; 1949-; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Income distribution
First sentence: The high-growth phase of Ireland's development that is known as the Celtic Tiger is usually dated to the fiscal austerity programme implemented by the minority Fianna Fail government which took office in March 1987 (for an insider account, see Mac Sharry and White, 2000).