Material de referência para uma reflexão continuada, ou, façam o favor de ver as diferenças e as semelhanças! Ao fim fazem-se considerações sobre linhas de actuação a ter quanto à promoção do investimento na Irlanda do Norte.
"In essence, the Northern Ireland economy has operated under wartime conditions for nearly four decades. Public sector output amounts to around 60% of gross value added (the regional equivalent of GDP). More specifically, industrial policy has consisted of providing large scale grants to both inward investors and indigenous firms. This has been partly successful: employment growth has been high in the last decade and at the peak of the recent boom, the unemployment rate was hovering just above 4% as in the Republic of Ireland case. What was different was that productivity growth was low to non-existent. Consequently living standards have not converged on the UK and have diverged markedly from the Republic of Ireland and other successful countries"
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