Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Industrial development"

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    • Industrial development policy in Northern Ireland: an evaluation of the IDB 

      Hamilton, Douglas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      A number of studies have highlighted the depth of the economic and social problems which have persisted in Northern Ireland for many years (NIEC, 1989; Kennedy, Giblin and McHugh, 1988; Rowthorn and Wayne, 1988). Since, ...

    • Mr Whitaker and industry: setting the record straight ? a reply to Barry and Daly 

      Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      The turnaround in economic policy from the late 1950s was remarkable. Protectionism was abandoned and exporting incentivised. As Barry and Daly (2011) admit, 'Conventional wisdom accords the bulk of the credit for ...

    • Mr. Whitaker and industry: setting the record straight 

      Barry, Frank; Daly, Mary E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      After 16 years of unbroken Fianna Fail rule, the first four of the five general elections of the period 1948-1963 saw sitting governments unseated. Economic policy pivoted: protectionism was abandoned; foreign direct ...

    • Rich trades, scarce capabilities: industrial development revisited 

      Sutton, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      In the last decade of the sixteenth century, the Dutch republic underwent a dramatic economic transformation that laid the foundation of the country?s Golden Age. At the heart of this process was the rise of the ?rich ...