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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (234795)	3/6/2002 9:36:26 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

Re: You forgot the Celtic Tiger. Touche! Indeed I did. Intentionally. And just how big is that economy? According to our CIA: Ireland GDP: purchasing power parity - $81.9 billion (2000 est.) cia.gov Compare that to South Korea: GDP: purchasing power parity - $764.6 billion (2000 est.) Singapore: GDP: purchasing power parity - $109.8 billion (2000 est.) Malaysia: GDP: purchasing power parity - $223.7 billion (2000 est.) Indonesia: GDP: purchasing power parity - $654 billion (2000 est.) Thailand: GDP: purchasing power parity - $413 billion (2000 est.) All in, the Asian Tigers total $2.165 Trillion, making Ireland's contribution to the world's GDP basically a rounding error. As the accountants are prone to say, the number lacks materiality. <smile> -Ray