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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Ireland in the early years of the 21st Century.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are
unsubstantiated, misleading or even false. No attempt has been
made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of poverty are of particular interest to
you. You might be interested in
exploring the relationship between distribution of labor and per-capita GDP,
for example. Perhaps your paper could
focus on life expectancy or infant mortality.
Other factors of interest might be unemployment, literacy, access to
basic services, etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include some of the possible outgrowths of poverty
such as Human Trafficking,
Street Children,
or even Prostitution. There is a lot to the subject of
Poverty. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** Extreme Weather *** Northern
Ireland recently experienced an amber warning for extreme heat, which lasted
from Wednesday until the end of Friday. It came close to surpassing the
hottest day ever recorded in the region. Met Éireann
predicts more frequent and extreme weather events, including higher
temperatures and thunderstorms, due to climate change. June 2023 was the
hottest June on record in Ireland, breaking an 83-year-old temperature
record. – adapted
from Microsoft BING Copilot *** ARCHIVES *** The World Factbook - Ireland U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ei.html [accessed 29
December 2020] World Factbook
website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ireland/ [accessed 5 January 2021] Ireland
is a small, modern, trade-dependent economy. It was among the initial group
of 12 EU nations that began circulating the euro on 1 January 2002. GDP
growth averaged 6% in 1995-2007, but economic activity dropped sharply during
the world financial crisis and the subsequent collapse of its domestic
property market and construction industry during 2008-11. Faced with sharply
reduced revenues and a burgeoning budget deficit from efforts to stabilize
its fragile banking sector, the Irish Government introduced the first in a
series of draconian budgets in 2009. These measures were not sufficient to
stabilize Ireland’s public finances. In 2010, the budget deficit reached
32.4% of GDP - the world's largest deficit, as a percentage of GDP. In late
2010, the former COWEN government agreed to a $92 billion loan package from
the EU and IMF to help Dublin recapitalize Ireland’s banking sector and avoid
defaulting on its sovereign debt. In March 2011, the KENNY government
intensified austerity measures to meet the deficit targets under Ireland's
EU-IMF bailout program. GDP -
per capita (PPP): $73,200 (2017
est.) Labor force - by
occupation: agriculture:
5% industry:
11% services: 84% (2011 est.) Unemployment
rate: 6.7% (2017
est.) Population
below poverty line: 8.2% (2013
est.) Maternal
mortality rate: 5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) Infant mortality
rate: total: 3.6 deaths/1,000 live births Life
expectancy at birth: total population: 81.2 years Drinking
water source: improved: total: 97.4% of
population Physicians
density: 3.29 physicians/1,000 population (2017) Sanitation
facility access: improved: total: 98.2% of
population Electricity
access: electrification - total population: 100% (2016) The
Borgen Project - Ireland borgenproject.org/category/ireland/ [accessed 7 February 2021] The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the
United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for
the world’s poor. It is an innovative,
national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign
policy. It believes that leaders of
the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global
poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote,
nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The
Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating
at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day. ~
5 Facts About Homelessness In Ireland borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-ireland/ ~
Youth Leader Innovations To Combat Global Food Security borgenproject.org/global-food-security-youth-innovations/ ~
Problems With Healthcare In Ireland borgenproject.org/problems-with-healthcare-in-ireland/ ~
The State Of Poverty In Ireland borgenproject.org/the-state-of-poverty-in-ireland/ ~
Top 10 Facts About Poverty In Ireland borgenproject.org/top-ten-facts-about-poverty-in-ireland/ ~
The History Of Poverty In Ireland borgenproject.org/history-of-poverty-in-ireland/ Women ‘left in poverty’ due to welfare system built around ‘male breadwinner’ Jack Power, The Irish Times, 5 Dec 2020 [Long URL] [accessed 6 December 2020] The setup of
Ireland’s tax and social welfare systems around the concept of the “male
breadwinner” was more likely to leave women in poverty when they became
pensioners, the Citizens’ Assembly has heard. “In the vast
majority of cases the man was the breadwinner and had a stay-at-home wife,
who had no independent income and whose years of family care were never
economically valued,” she said. A woman in this situation
“may end up a very poor pensioner at the end of her lifetime of working and
caring, particularly if she is separated, divorced or widowed,” Ms Day said. Looking
back a few years Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Ireland-ECONOMY.html [accessed 29 December 2020] Until the 1950s,
Ireland had a predominantly agricultural economy, with agriculture making the
largest contribution to the GNP. However, liberal trade policies and the
drive for industrialization stimulated economic expansion. In 1958,
agriculture accounted for 21% of the GNP, industry 23.5%, and other sectors
55.5%. By 2001, however, agriculture accounted for only 4% of the total,
industry 36%, and services 60%. Ireland has
depended on substantial financial assistance from the European Union designed
to raise the per capita gross national product to the EU average. Almost $11
billion was allocated for the period 1993–99 from the EU's Structural and
Cohesion Funds. During the 1990s, living standards rose from 56% to 87% of
the EU average. All
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