GDP
Gross Domestic Product. The total value of the goods and services produced by a country in that country within a one year period.
# gdp - Monday 22 April, 2013
The Evening Fix… now with added dogs comforting people
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today…
# gdp - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Leading pro-austerity academic paper may have included fatal Excel error
A 2010 paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff found that growth falls dramatically as debt increases. Or does it?
# gdp - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Low growth and high unemployment forecast for next three years – NERI
Authors predict a further fall in the numbers employed in 2013 but expect employment to remain static in 2014 and 2015.
# gdp - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Aaron McKenna: While the Eurozone is floundering, the US is seeing growth – but why?
The EU needs to either get on with integration, proper banking and political union or separate into amicable trading partners and neighbours, writes Aaron McKenna.
# gdp - Monday 4 March, 2013
Davy revises projections for growth in Irish economy… upward
Here’s something you don’t see every day… someone suggesting the economy will grow by more than first predicted.
# gdp - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Eurozone economy shrinks by 0.6pc in last quarter of 2012
Uh-oh. A dramatic drop in the Eurozone economy spells bad news for hopes of a further boom in Irish exports.
# gdp - Thursday 31 January, 2013
ESRI predicts economic growth and fall in unemployment in 2013
The ESRI said the driving force behind the reduction in unemployment is ongoing net emigration.
# gdp - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Cutting €1bn in public pay will shave up to 0.5% off GDP – ESRI
Cutting public sector pay by €1bn will result in a reduction of 0.25% – 0.5% in GDP, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute.
# gdp - Saturday 26 January, 2013
How the best countries in the world have changed since 1988
Ireland isn’t doing too badly, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit…
# gdp - Monday 21 January, 2013
2013 the ‘turning point’ for domestic economy, says IBEC
The employers group has a cheery outlook for 2013 – predicting that the public will become as optimistic as outsiders.
# gdp - Thursday 15 November, 2012
Falling growth means Eurozone is back in recession
Hadn’t you noticed? Eurozone GDP fell by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2012.
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Good morning. Here’s nine things to know this morning…
# gdp - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
Interview: ‘There will be mass defaults, I guarantee it’ – David McWilliams
The time to take action on tracker mortgages is now or we will see another wave of mortgage defaults says economist David McWilliams.
# gdp - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Inflation low but prices high in Ireland
The Central Statistics Office figures on Ireland’s progress from 2007 – 2011 give an insight into the latest updates on health, employment, divorce and poverty.
# gdp - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
IMF: Irish economy to grow but unemployment will remain high in 2013
The International Monetary Fund has warned of a global economic slowdown in its latest World Economic Outlook which notes our own “bumpy recovery”.
# gdp - Friday 28 September, 2012
France introduces 75 per cent income tax rate for millionaires
France unveiled the toughest package of tax rises and spending cuts ever seen in the country during an economic downturn.
# gdp - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
Central Bank publishes letter on Fiscal Compact – Ireland on track for 2020
The letter states that, despite ‘many uncertainties’, the date of 2020 remains achievable.
Column: Moaning about allowances lets us ignore Ireland’s real problems
Public sector allowances are small fry – but the media storm is a distraction from the real bad news, writes Michael Taft.
# gdp - Friday 10 August, 2012
GDP indicates where your country ends up on medal table
But there are big under, and overachievers. Way to go Jamaica and a few others.
# gdp - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
UK in worst double dip recession for 50 years
Britain’s economic output collapsed by 0.7 per cent, far more than analysts expected.
# gdp - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
Irish GDP per head fourth highest in Europe
Ireland’s GDP per head of population was 27 per cent above the EU average in 2011.
# gdp - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Poorer nations facing ‘tougher times’ as China slows
World Bank warns that African economies may face a more difficult future as the Chinese economy begins to slow.
# gdp - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
Vote No: The Treaty will bring the EU together – in economic stagnation
Confidence and stability will be the last things to emerge from this dangerous experiment, writes Michael Taft.
# gdp - Tuesday 15 May, 2012
Eurozone GDP unchanged in the first quarter of 2012
Modest growth in the likes of Germany is offset by falls in other large countries like Italy; France is also perfectly flat.
# gdp - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
Minister to reveal on Monday whether mini-Budget is needed
The next Stability Programme Update is due out next Monday – but Michael Noonan remains insistent that we’ll meet our targets.
# gdp - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
Budget body says Ireland could need €400m mini-budget
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says the Budget’s projections for economic growth may have been too ambitious.
# gdp - Thursday 22 March, 2012
Recession returns as Ireland’s economic output falls again
Irish economic output has declined for two successive quarters – meaning Ireland is technically back into a recession.
# gdp - Friday 9 March, 2012
Ireland will outperform eurozone despite dip in exports – Ulster Bank
Ulster Bank also says we could be presented with the need for a mini-Budget, but advises against introducing one.
# gdp - Tuesday 6 March, 2012
Eurozone growth revised downwards to 1.4% in 2011
Eurozone GDP contracted by 0.3 per cent in the final quarter of 2011 – in comparison to a 0.7 per cent rise during the same period last year.
# gdp - Friday 24 February, 2012
Eurozone in ‘mild recession with signs of stabilisation’
The European Commission says that economic recovery in the eurozone will be sluggish for the first half of the year before a modest pick-up occurs.
ESRI: Austerity is working – and there are few other alternatives
In a report published today, the think-tank forecast that Ireland’s economy will grow by 0.9 per cent this year.
# gdp - Wednesday 15 February, 2012
Eurozone economy shrinks for first time since 2009
Data published by the EU’s statistics body shows that the European economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in Q4 of 2011.
# gdp - Thursday 2 February, 2012
# gdp - Monday 30 January, 2012
France cuts 2012 growth forecast to 0.5 per cent
The second largest economy in the eurozone has halved its growth projections for 2012 – but insists that it will return to growth next year.
Dublin falls from 12th to 198th in study of major world cities
The only cities which did worse than Dublin in the study of 200 cities were Lisbon and Athens.
IBEC downgrades growth forecast amid ‘challenging’ conditions
The business group believes the economy will not live up to Department of Finance predictions this year.
# gdp - Sunday 22 January, 2012
Katie Price urges closer EU fiscal union but warns against quantitative easing
The glamour model said that her Twitter account had not been hacked as she gave her take on world economic affairs this afternoon.
# gdp - Wednesday 11 January, 2012
Latest draft of EU deal raises further questions of Irish referendum
Even if Ireland does not need a referendum on ratifying the deal this year, one may be required later in the decade.
# gdp - Thursday 5 January, 2012
Column: Ireland faces a decade of austerity – so let’s not waste it
Economists tell us we’ve got ten years of financial difficulty – so do we want to buckle under, or use this opportunity to reshape Ireland? Aaron McKenna writes.
# gdp - Saturday 17 December, 2011
We’re heading for a recession… oh, no we’re not?
Ireland definitely experienced a downturn from July to September – but is that a trend we can ‘look forward’ to in the medium-term?





















































