Can Northern Ireland ensure a more prosperous future?
Northern Ireland is struggling with the hardships of reversing decades of economic insecurity, political uncertainty, and the impact of Brexit. citizen unrest create new challenges for the region in the centenary.
The leaders of the three largest political parties in Northern Ireland said that the region created by the partition of Ireland on 3 May 1921 could foster prosperity, such as controlling the corporate tax rate, educating children from all communities together and making it long-term. infrastructure investments.
By almost every measure, Northern Ireland starts from a low base. A study published in 2019 by economists at Dublin’s Trinity College described decades of inadequate spending on education and infrastructure as a failure to attract domestic investment and a one-way flow of regional talent.