Ireland is the only EU member state which avoided recession in 2020. A miracle? No – Ireland is the European Union's tax haven.
The country uses an incentive system for intangible asset transfers on a scale that distorts its own national accounts.
Irish statistics have little in common with the actual picture of the economy – artificial transactions account for 20 percent of GDP.
Irish GDP expanded by 3.0 percent in 2020, boosted by exports from multinational companies spe...
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Krzysztof Marczewski, Jakub Rybacki, Jakub Sawulski are economists from the Polish Economic Institute.