I appreciate your information.
What do mean about some people refering to Northern Ireland as a "tribal problem"?
(Holy Crap! If this Newsweek article can be believed, violence against immigrants in NI has increased 20 times since 1996.)
--- Jason <lists at moduszine.com> wrote:
> On 2007-03-26 19:21:44 +0100 Chris Doss
> <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks to you and Jason both.
> >
> > I take it the Irish economic boom has extended to
> > Northern Ireland?
>
> No. Though there is more economic activity than
> before it's still
> pretty poor and dependent on British and EU
> subvention as well as the
> public sector. The South is even paying for some new
> roads in the
> North.
>
> Housing costs are beginning to spiral upward (though
> in real terms
> they're not nearly as expesnive as in the South)
> something which is a
> substitute for real economic activity and brings a
> tear of joy to many
> a middle-class eye.
>
> The Alliance party called for the North to pay its
> own way in a press
> release this week. That's all very welll, but
> considering the state of
> the economy what that actually means is higher taxes
> at the bottom
> level and a dramatic scaling back of the public
> sector and health
> service - job cuts.
>
> The North has the highest levels of unemployment and
> lowest GDP in the
> UK (though I think the per capita GDP figure might
> be slightly higher
> than Wales). Unskilled jobs are more common than
> elsewhere in the UK
> or in the Republic. Half a million people are
> "economically inactive"
> - official unemployment is at 4.5 per cent and
> working-age economic
> inactivity is at 28 per cent. Official unemployment
> was over 18 per
> cent in the 1980s. The total population is under 1.7
> million. Public
> sector activity makes up over 60 per cent of the
> economy.
> NI's manufacturing base (which practically only
> employed Protestants)
> such as Harland and Wolff, Shorts and Makceys are
> now entirely
> decimated or a shadow of their former selves.
> Price Waterhouse Coopers seem to be in charge of the
> economy these
> days and regularly issue reports demanding further
> belt-tightening.
> House prices:
> http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0207/North.html
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6402733.stm
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/uk_house_prices/regions/html/region11.stm
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6207868.stm
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/5048288.stm
>
> General economy:
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6382849.stm
>
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2005/10/02/story8456.asp
>
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=STAT/05/13&format=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en
> http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0118/North.html
>
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/01/01/story10712.asp
>
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/02/19/story11959.asp
>
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/10/29/story18417.asp
>
> Some of those links are a bit old but if you search
> around you'll find
> more.
>
> I can heartily recommend the Sunday Business Post if
> you're interested
> in economics in Ireland, North or South:
> http://www.sbpost.ie
>
> Jason.
>
>
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