Most satisfying was the 1,300 jobs added each week
What do Bangladesh, India, Libya, the Ivory Coast, and Ethiopia have in common? Well, taking the latest projections from the IMF as gospel, that quintet will have the distinction of being the only countries in the world to have grown by more than Ireland, in terms of headline GDP in 2018, writes
Of course, the quirks of our multinational sector can distort Ireland’s reported headline growth numbers, but a range of indicators support the contention that the economy had a sparkling 2018. Government tax receipts were up 7.6% in the first 11 months of the year. Housing completions climbed 28% in the first nine months of 2018.
