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The protesters outside of the House of Leinster in Dublin on Tuesday that Finance Minister Brian Lenihan prepares to deliver his budget for 2010.?Photo: PA

. 6bn ￡ 104-the amount of government debt.

65 5pc - public debt as a percentage of GDP.

. 9bn ￡ 22-the Ireland deficit.

14 4pc - deficit as a percentage of GDP.

-7 6pc - growth of real GDP in 2009.

13 2pc - unemployment rate of the Ireland

€7.65 (￡ 6.45)New minimum wage of-Ireland, set out in a four-year national recovery plan. The minimum wage was introduced in 2000 and has been fixed at €5.59. It has increased sixfold since its introduction and amounted to above its initial when level 55pc it increased to €8.65 in July 2007, making the minimum wage second in Europe at the time.

€17. 7bn (￡ 14. 92bn)-the level of social protection expenditure in 2008, an increase in the image on the expenditure levels in 2000.

€196 (￡ 165) - Current weekly unemployment benefit. Social assistance payments were nearly doubled between 2001 and 2009.

66 - The new era in which individuals will be eligible for the pension from the State - to be introduced in 2014. Plans were also exposed to increase the age of 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028.

€35,904 (￡ 30,255) - The average annual salary in Ireland.

€46,132.84 (￡ 38,874) - Pay a worker primary school average in 2008.

59pc - compensation for public service amount has increased from 2000 to 2009.

18 €300 (￡ 15,421) - Irish coffee amount workers can earn to pay income tax. The point of entry to the income tax has risen from €7,238 since 2000. Standard tax rates and more also decreased and 26pc 48pc in 1997 - 1998 and 20pc 41pc in 2007.

To these changes, the proportion of employees income exempt from income tax rose from 34pc in 2004 to an estimated 2010 45pc.

4 5pc - the number of workers in the agricultural industry. Service industry the Ireland employs 75 9pc workforce, while the industry employs 19 labour the Ireland 6pc.

30 m - the number of European catering by beef for Irish. The Ireland is the largest exporter of beef in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. One in five burgers served in restaurants McDonald in Europe consist of Irish beef.

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WASHINGTON - Manufacturing activity expanded the month at the fastest pace since May due to a surge in new orders and production.

Institute for supply management said its index of manufacturing read 56.9 in October, 54.4 in September.This is the 15th straight month of croissance.Une reading above 50 indicates growth.?

Manufacturing has helped the economy recession last year, but growth slowed last month for the months of lecteur.Activité pink China manufacturing.Survey affiliated with the Government stated its pink able to 54.7 in October of 53.8 in September.

Injured parties Life Inc.: contributions did not shoppers GOP accueillis.Index adversity and target among Democrats: an economy crawling on the floor Life.: Economist says "no double-dip".

Separately, other reports show spending edged up slightly in September, after having fallen to lowest in a decade as a gain in residential projects of activity and the Government has helped offset weakness in commercial projects construction.

The Department of commerce said Monday that spending on construction projects increased by 0.5% in September after fell 0.2 percent in August to the lowest point since July 2000.

Even with small gain in September, remaining 34 percent below the peak of construction activity reached in 2006, when builders knew a residential housing boom.The boom has transformed into a bust that helped drag the country in a severe recession.

In September, all spending edged reaching 801.7 billions of dollars at a seasonally adjusted annual rate compared to spending in 1.21 trillion dollars at an annual rate in March 2006, at the top of the real estate.

Residential activity increased 1.8% at an annual rate of 231,7 billion in September, the first gain after four straight cuts.This weakness reflects the end of a popular buyers who had prompted construction before that ended in April government tax credit.

History: Low economic growth doesn't much matter

Projects of non-residential buildings private posted a decline in 1.6% at an annual rate of 250.3 billion in September after a rise of 0.8% in the month of August .the ' increase August had followed four monthly decline directly into this category, reflecting the deep recession and difficulty manufacturers are having obtained funding for shopping centres and commercial projects.

Spending on government projects rose 1.3% at an annual rate of 319.7 billion dollars.Qui reflects a jump of 6.1% in federal spending and a more modest rise of 0.8 per cent of expenditures of the State and local governments.

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A leakage of the said members of the G20 Summit communiqué draft would be willing to "refrain from competitive undervaluation. Photo: Bloomberg

George Osborne and Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States will meet their counterparts from China, the India and Japan Friday in the city of Gyeongju Korea South for the last round of negotiations the G20.

The threat of a "currency war" with countries manoeuvres to devalue their currency in order to increase exports, is squarely at the top of the agenda.

Draft leak the communiqué said Summit G20 members would agree to "move to a more determined by the market exchange rate system" and "refrain from competitive undervaluation.

Brazil, Australia Canada urged G20 to reach a solution on this issue, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President, saying: "the world knows the currency war there and we need to discuss in the g-20 and find a definitive solution to it."

The United States are determined to reach agreement on "fair" in the exchange rate rules, and Mr. Geithner, told the Wall Street Journal that he would "like countries to move towards a set of standards on exchange rate policy.

While he believes that the euro, yen and the dollar are almost "alignment", he repeated that the Chinese yuan is undervalued.

Mr. Geithner said it would be even push his colleagues agree on numerical targets for their trade balance, a manoeuvre which India scrapped immediately. " "I am not sure that this will be supported by a large number of emerging countries", said an Indian agent.

Mr. Geithner said encouragement from the rest of the G20 could persuade China to accelerate the increase of the yuan.

Given that China depegged currency dollar in the middle of June, the yuan has increased some 2 6pc. ""If China knew only if it is moved faster, other emerging markets would move with them, it would be easier for them to move," said Mr. Geithner.

However, Chinese officials have argued that any sudden increase in their currency could sink tens of thousands of export companies that operate on thin margins.

"Many of our export companies shall close migrant workers would have to return to their villages," said Wen Jiabao and the earlier this month, the Chinese Prime Minister. "If China has seen social and economic turbulence, then it would be a disaster for the world.?

The release of the project, which is likely to change to the Summit, said the G20 would minimize the "negative effects of disordered in rates of Exchange and excessive volatility movements", a sop akin to the concerns of China.

China also stated United States print new funds to stimulate its economy trend is originally a gross distortion in the global economy as investors are fleeing the dollar and seek more returns elsewhere, particularly in markets émergents.Le project the G20 would "work to more effectively manage the influx of capital volatile and rapidly emerging countries".

Since the financial crisis, G20, a disparate collection of rich and developing countries, has replaced the G7 as the most important economic policy forum mondiales.Cependant, it remains largely skeptical about whether a collection of countries as various the Indonesia Turkey Japan, the Germany can agree on something else than the broad brush strokes.

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