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Sat 11 Nov 2008Lithuanian immigrants urged to come home
THE LITHUANIAN government has begun a recruitment drive to try to encourage some of the estimated 70,000 immigrants living here to return home.
Like Ireland, Lithuania has had some good times, but they have come to a dramatic halt. Economic growth at a respectable 4.5 per cent this year is likely to fall to 0.5 per cent next year. House prices have fallen by 20 per cent and wages, which went up by 15 per cent last year, are static.
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