dimanche 31 janvier 2010

Good news on the public finances suggests Ireland’s recession is over

The most encouraging signs of recovery are to be seen in the public finances, which were ruined by recession. Ireland’s finance minister, Brian Lenihan, revealed on January 5th that the 2009 deficit was €620m ($860m), smaller than he had forecast in his budget only a month previously. That good news owed much to tax revenues in December that proved stronger than expected.

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