CSO's bid to shake off 'Lepronomics'
New measure of economy unveiled but figures still show effects of multinational activities
This time last year, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) published a controversial revision of its Irish economic figures for 2015, which showed that gross domestic product (GDP) jumped by a massive 26 per cent.
The storm over those figures –dubbed ‘leprechaun economics’- led to the formation ofan expert group to review how best to measure the performance of the Irish economy.
This morning, the CSO provided the first figures based on that group’s ...
