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    The Greater Dublin Area (GDA) in Ireland has developed into a manufacturing center due to important human and economic factors. Human factors like Dublin's young and educated population as well as strong transportation infrastructure via Dublin Port and Airport have attracted foreign companies. Economically, the GDA provides access to over 1.65 million local consumers and skilled labor from third-level institutes. It also benefits from Ireland's low corporate tax rates and membership in the EU common market. As a result, the GDA supports manufacturing across sectors like computer chips, newspapers, and pipes.

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    The Greater Dublin Area (GDA) in Ireland has developed into a manufacturing center due to important human and economic factors. Human factors like Dublin's young and educated population as well as strong transportation infrastructure via Dublin Port and Airport have attracted foreign companies. Economically, the GDA provides access to over 1.65 million local consumers and skilled labor from third-level institutes. It also benefits from Ireland's low corporate tax rates and membership in the EU common market. As a result, the GDA supports manufacturing across sectors like computer chips, newspapers, and pipes.

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    The Greater Dublin Area (GDA) in Ireland has developed into a manufacturing center due to important human and economic factors. Human factors like Dublin's young and educated population as well as strong transportation infrastructure via Dublin Port and Airport have attracted foreign companies. Economically, the GDA provides access to over 1.65 million local consumers and skilled labor from third-level institutes. It also benefits from Ireland's low corporate tax rates and membership in the EU common market. As a result, the GDA supports manufacturing across sectors like computer chips, newspapers, and pipes.

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    The Greater Dublin Area (GDA) in Ireland has developed into a manufacturing center due to important human and economic factors. Human factors like Dublin's young and educated population as well as strong transportation infrastructure via Dublin Port and Airport have attracted foreign companies. Economically, the GDA provides access to over 1.65 million local consumers and skilled labor from third-level institutes. It also benefits from Ireland's low corporate tax rates and membership in the EU common market. As a result, the GDA supports manufacturing across sectors like computer chips, newspapers, and pipes.

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    Manufacturing Greater Dublin Area

    Introduction:
    1. A region is an area of the earths surface that has one or more
    characteristics, be they physical or socio-economic, which
    distinguish it from other areas.
    2.

    The region that I have studied is the Greater Dublin Area in


    Ireland.

    Human Factors:
    1. Human factors such as population, access to education,
    infrastructure and communications have influenced the
    development of manufacturing in the Greater Dublin Area
    (GDA).
    2. The Greater Dublin Area (GDA) contains Dublin City,
    Irelands capital and a primate city, which is the most
    economically important urban area in Dublin.
    3. The low age profile of Dublin is a pull factor for foreign
    MNCs looking to settle in Ireland, with 45% of people being
    under 25 years of age.
    4. The GDA is also a financial services centre, IFSC in the
    Docklands, and this has encouraged manufacturers to locate
    in the region because of the provision of financial
    management services and business development advice
    services.
    5. With Dublin being a nodal point, road and rail routes radiate
    outwards from the city to the rest of Ireland, such as the M50,
    allowing manufacturers to reach a countrywide market.
    6. As a result of this well-developed transport network,
    manufacturing is dispersed across the GDA, with computer
    chip manufacturing at Leixlip, newspaper production in City
    West and Wavin pipe production in Balbriggan.

    7. Dublin Port is Irelands premier port and is vital to industry


    for its importing of resource materials and exporting of
    finished goods from Dublins manufacturing plants.
    8. Dublin Airport is an international airport, having connections
    to many destinations overseas, and this is very important for
    the business community and for the export of small highvalue goods.

    Economic Factors:
    1. Economic factors such as markets, skill of labour force and
    government policies have also influenced the development of
    manufacturing in the GDA.
    2. Industries located in the GDA have access to the local market
    of the 1.65 million consumers who live in Dublin City and
    county.
    3. The population of the GDA are also wealthier in comparison
    to the rest of Ireland, with wages being 10% above the EU
    average, providing a market for high-value goods.
    4. The numerous third-level institutes of the GDA produce a
    highly skilled labour force, with three out of every four PhDs
    awarded in Ireland being resident in Dublin City and county.
    5. Irelands membership of the EU allows companies to access a
    broader internal market of about 500 million, a market with
    no internal tariff and trade barriers.
    6. The Irish governments maintaining of the countrys low
    corporation tax of 12.5% has proved a great incentive for
    foreign MNCs to locate in the GDA and across the Republic.
    7. The Irish government have also built state-of-the-art
    industrial states, such as Sandyford Industrial Estate, as well
    as providing training and retraining programmes through
    FS.

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