WS More or Less: Ireland鈥檚 Shock GDP figures
Does Ireland really have the fasted growing economy in the world? More Or Less investigates.
The Irish Central Statistics Office has released figures showing that Ireland鈥檚 economy grew by 26% in 2015. That would make it the fastest growing economy in the world. But American economist Paul Krugman described this as 鈥渓eprechaun economics鈥 as this growth rate is so unrealistically high. More or Less explores how multinational companies with headquarters in Ireland have led to an accounting headache for working out the country鈥檚 GDP.
Also, the mobile gaming app Pokemon Go has taken the US by storm and is now spreading across the world. But does Pokemon Go really have 26 million daily active users in the US? More Or Less investigates.
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