Evaluating Ireland's Recovery from Economic Crisis: Was Austerity Help or Hurt?
After over a decade of extraordinarily high economic growth, Ireland’s economy came to an abrupt crisis in 2008. The country was the first member of the Eurozone to enter into severe recession as a result of the global financial crisis. The housing bubble popped, the economy shrunk by 19.6% from 2008-10, and unemployment rose … Read more