Georgian economic growth slows to 1.7 pct in Jan-Feb yr/yr
01.04.2016 11:30
Georgia's economic growth rate slowed to 1.7 percent in January and February 2016 from 2.7 percent in the same two-month period last year, the National Statistics Service said on Wednesday.
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In February alone the growth slowed to 2.6 percent from 4.9 percent in February 2015.
The former Soviet republic, through which pipelines carry Caspian oil and gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, has been hit by a decline in exports and remittances and a plunge in the Russian rouble
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The government expects 3 percent economic growth in 2016. Growth was 2.8 percent in 2015, down from 4.6 percent in 2014.
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