01603cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003293 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451818802 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Ireland : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (60 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The Selected Issues paper analyzes how fast Ireland will grow in the future. The approach of this paper is to consider the catch-up in labor utilization productivity and use independent demographic projections and other considerations to make reasonable assumptions about labor productivity and utilization growth in the future. It uses a simple growth-accounting framework, and discusses the trends in labor utilization and productivity per hour in the past. The paper also describes the spectacular boom of the Irish housing market and its key drivers from an international perspective. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2004/349 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2004/349/002.2004.issue-349-en.xml IMF e-Library