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An island economy or island economies? Ireland after the Belfast agreement
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Date Issued
2006
Date Available
2010-07-08T15:45:27Z
Abstract
This paper examines economic progress in the island of Ireland in the context of its modern history, but with particular emphasis on the post cease-fire and post Belfast Agreement period, inquiring whether or not policy makers and businesses on the island have been able to build a more robust economy, benefiting from cross-border synergies as civil conflict faded into the background. In what way has an “island” economy emerged in the aftermath of internal Northern Ireland conflict, in the sense envisaged by business leaders such as Sir George Quigley and Liam Connellan in the early 1990s? In the absence of a strong “island” focus for the economies of North and South, are the two regions of the island likely to drift further apart and relate to the newly enlarged EU market in different ways? If an island economy does not emerge, has Northern Ireland any future other than as a lagging region of the UK? On the other hand, can Ireland sustain its role as an EU success story in the face of increasing competition from the new member states and from Asia?
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Other funder
Other Sponsorship
Special EU Programmes Body through the Higher Education Authority
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies
Series
IBIS Working Papers
72
MFPP Working Papers
22
Copyright (Published Version)
The author, 2006
Subject – LCSH
Economic development--Ireland
Economic development--Northern Ireland
Ireland--Economic conditions--21st century
Northern Ireland--Economic conditions--21st century
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1649-0304
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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