More than £7.9m has been invested in rural communities and businesses across Northern Ireland over the past year.

Grants totalling £7.91m have been awarded to more than 2,350 rural community organisations and businesses in Northern Ireland over the past year.

Fermanagh and residents are facing pressure from high fuel costs, a reality highlighted by Jim Shannon during a House of Commons debate on 7 January.

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...