这一内部贬值进程是有所回报的：爱尔兰在2008年时的经常账户赤字相当于GDP的5.6 % ， 而欧盟委员会预计该国会在2011年实现相当于GDP0.7%的盈余。
This internal devaluation is paying off: while Ireland was still running a current-account deficit of 5.6% of GDP in 2008, the European Commission expects the outturn for 2011 to have been a 0.7%-of-GDP current-account surplus.