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SUMMARY:150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland - Frank Gear
 y and Tom Stark
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DESCRIPTION:Estimates of regional GDP for the UK for the census years betw
 een 1861 and 2011 indicate that regional inequality displays a U shape. Ou
 ter Britain and Ireland caught up on London and the South East to 1911. Co
 nvergence became divergence after 1911. Between 1931 and 1951\, convergenc
 e picked up again. Measured dispersion of regional incomes remained at his
 toric lows between 1951 and 1971. This has gone decisively into reverse si
 nce 1991. The Republic Ireland has gone from being the poorest region of t
 he UK in the nineteenth century to the second richest in the British Isles
  in the twenty first.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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