The saving rate, some 2.3% in 2007, may have risen as high as 11.5%, says Alan Barrett at ESRI, a Dublin-based research institute.

• 总部位于都柏林的爱尔兰独立智库经济与社会研究所的亚伦-巴雷特表示2007年的储蓄利率为2.；3%25左右，而现已飙升至11