The impact of EEC financial assistance on Irish economic development since 1973
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McNamara, Brendan. 'Symposium on EEC membership: the impact of EEC financial assistance on Irish economic development since 1973'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XXV No. 1, 1983/1984, pp221-236Download Item:
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Abstract:
Ireland became a member of the European Economic Community on January 1
1973. The decision to join an enlarged EEC had many motives, political and
economic. Among the most important was the belief that membership would
contribute positively to the further development of the Irish economy both in terms
of the stimulus it would give to investment and growth and, more directly, because
of the flow of funds that we could expect to obtain from Europe.
The purpose of the present paper is to assess how far financial assistance to Ireland
from the Community has contributed to development of the economy. The analysis
is intended to answer a number of questions:
(I) how has Community financial assistance to Ireland grown since 1973?
(ii) how has Ireland's share of the Community budget and of other finances
developed as compared with our Community partners?
(iii) what has been the relationship between EEC financing and:
(a) development of the size and structure of the national budget (with
particular emphasis on the capital budget);
(b) investment growth?
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Read before the Society, 30th May, 1984
Author: McNamara, Brendan
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Symposium on EEC MembershipPublisher:
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XXV No. 1 1983/1984
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