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High Court rules that child cannot be refused naturalisation based on parent’s failed character test
Acclaimed African novel is published as GaeilgeAn Irish translation of Africa’s greatest novels has been published to wide acclaim. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was translated by Irene Lynch, wife of former Irish Ambassador to Nigeria Joseph Lynch.
How to invest wisely in AfricaKunle Aderemi Africa’s journey from when it was tagged as the ‘The Hopeless Continent’ on the cover of The Economist in May 2000 to December of 2011, when the same publication used ‘Africa Rising’ as its headline (followed by ‘Aspiring Africa’ in March 2013) has been anything but boring. The continent has become the hottest destination for emerging market investors. From 2000, according to the World Economic Forum, half of the world’s fastest-growing economies have been in Africa.
The shrewd should look to AfricaThe International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest economic growth outlook for sub-Saharan Africa is the worst since 2000. This is because in 2016 there were more African countries that experienced a drop in their economic growth. When compared to their 2015 performance, economic growth in 34 out of 54 African countries declined.
The World At Home: Charles Laffiteau’s Bigger PictureI BEGIN 2019 by expressing my belief that Beto O’Rourke will succeed Donald Trump as America’s 46th president on 20 January 2021. As some of this newspaper’s readers may recall, I made a similar prediction about a first-term Senator from Illinois named Barack Obama back in March 2007, 11 months before the first presidential contest, the January 2008 Iowa caucuses.
Breaking stigma around HIV testingHIV testing and medication have grandly improved over the past few years. In the 1990s the treatment was very limited, so people were dying at quite a significant scale.
Census data reveal small decrease in Ireland’s immigrant populationIreland’s immigrant population has decreased by 1.6 per cent, according to the latest Census 2016 report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Ireland facing ‘crisis of competitiveness’ says top economistAhead of the 2019 Budget, a respected economist has cautioned against fiscal electioneering. In his latest economic outlook for leading insurer and investment provider Friends First, Jim Power highlights recent research showing clearly that Ireland is over-reliant on the performance of a narrow base of firms and economic sectors.