In this paper, therefore, I propose to describe how G.N.P. at constant prices is derived and to indicate some of the difficulties experienced in what is called "deflating G.N.P. to constant prices". Such information ...

The census of the United States is of a much more comprehensive character than that of the United Kingdom. In addition to the collection of facts regarding the people, it includes an inquiry into the wealth of the nation. ...

We are proceeding in this symposium from the general to the particular; and my task is to discuss in the broadest terms the general economic outlook for the United Kingdom in 1954. This seems to me to involve two questions, ...

Some years ago the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland was advocated in the press and in parliament, and the question: What was the hindrance to the cultivation of the plant in this country? was put to the Chancellor of the ...

The Statistical Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland has been publishing now for twelve years an annual estimate of the "Trade in Imports and Exports at Irish Ports." I propose ...

The Second Programme for Economic Expansion, published in 1963, was the first public acknowledgement by the Irish government that expenditure on education was an investment in the nation?s future. It was to be many years ...

One of the most common political mantras to-day is that education is the handmaiden of economic growth and prosperity. Politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair constantly trumpet the need to invest in education and ...

This symposium is concerned with the possible effects of peace between the two parts of Ireland on the economies of both and on the island of Ireland as a whole. It goes without saying that the greatest and overwhelming ...

In my contribution to this Symposium I wish to explore two main themes. The first deals with the contribution of education to economic growth at the macro level. In this part I shall discuss the evidence of the importance ...

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 ...