Comments: Monsignor Diarmuid Martin
Language:
English
Keywords:
BOOK; government; country; policy; Sen; OECD government; redistribution policy; microenterprise growth; OECD country; government policy; market reform; Income inequality; Income distribution; Personal income; Income; Sub-Saharan Africa; East Asia; Global; Africa; Eastern Europe; economic system; arms expenditure; nonproductive spending; damage social; nature of the economy; Human capital

Abstract

I am not an economist, but what I have to say is very much in harmony with what we have heard so far. I come from Ireland, and my Irish bishop, when he was invited to speak at international conferences, always found it necessary to explain to the interpreters that when he said that in Dublin there were parishes with a 70 percent unemployment rate, the interpreters should not translate this figure as 17 percent. Interpreters could not imagine that within a successful economy like Ireland’s, there could be pockets of extremely high unemployment.

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Economic Policy and Equity
Editor: Mr. Ke-young Chu, Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, and Mr. Vito Tanzi
ISBN:
9781557757883
Publication Date:
04 May 1999
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557757883.071
Pages:
308