GL HERO SHIMA Posted April 21, 2024 Posted April 21, 2024 Economic concepts like subvention, productivity and identifiable expenditure are not the usual materials of political passion in Northern Ireland. But this week they took centre stage as a new report attempted to estimate the initial costs of Irish unification. The work by Dublin-based economists, John Fitzgerald and Edgar Morgenroth, looked at how much it costs to deliver public services in Northern Ireland and how those costs could be carried across to a unified state. The reaction was a taster of the economic arguments for and against unification, should a border poll be called anytime soon. Official data shows that Northern Ireland raises less in tax than it spends on public services with the gap filled by money from central government - a subvention. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68743937
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