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The effect of 1987 Ireland’s Programme for National Recovery on sustainable economic growth: A synthetic control approach

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  • de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Daniel
  • de Oliveira Pinheiro, Magnus Kelly
  • Francisco, Domingos Joaquim
  • de Oliveira, Mauricio Felipe Bemfica
  • Uhr, Júlia Gallego Ziero

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We examine the effect of the 1987 Programme for National Recovery, (PNR) on Ireland’s long-run GDP per capita. To our knowledge, we are the first to show the importance of the program for sustainable economic growth. We employ World Bank data from 1970 to 2018 and the synthetic control approach. Results show that the PNR contributed significantly to increasing Irish GDP per capita with an average effect of 17,374.24 US$. These conclusions remain robust to a placebo test and the Synthetic Difference in Difference approach.

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  • de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Daniel & de Oliveira Pinheiro, Magnus Kelly & Francisco, Domingos Joaquim & de Oliveira, Mauricio Felipe Bemfica & Uhr, Júlia Gallego Ziero, 2023. "The effect of 1987 Ireland’s Programme for National Recovery on sustainable economic growth: A synthetic control approach," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 222(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:222:y:2023:i:c:s0165176522004037
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110929
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    Keywords

    GDP per capita; Synthetic control; Ireland; Economic growth;
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    JEL classification:

    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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