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Ruchir Sharma, the chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and the author of “The Ten Rules of Successful Nations,...

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Ireland's Via Dolorosa in the Freeman's Journal: It depicts a woman [Hibernia, a representation of Ireland], prostrate with grief f...

An analysis published on October 22 shows that among 12 rich country members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (...

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The 2019 edition of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard rankings of the top 2,500 business research and development spenders ...

Jan Hoekman , a Data Scientist, estimated the survival rates of European startup firms: After the first year 58% of startups are left, sec...

BC/AD (Before Christ/Anno Domini or 'Year of Our Lord') was adopted 500 years after the beginning of the millennium. The use of BCE/...

In 2016 when Ireland reported that gross domestic product (GDP) had grown by 26% in 2015 Paul Krugman, the New York Times economics columnis...

In 1501-1867 an estimated 12.5m Africans were forced to travel to the Americas The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul...

A proxy for per capita Irish material standard of living based on household consumption of public and private goods and services, released b...

China, the US and the EU are the top global economies and despite the exit of the UK from the European Union, the bloc is similar in economi...