Comments: Monsignor Diarmuid Martin

Language:: English

Print Publication Date:: 04 May 1999

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.

Other Publishers Content

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share Link

Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://www.elibrary.imf.org/abstract/book/9781557757883/ch006.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully