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Statistics: Manufacturing and exports pick up

Tue, Apr 10 2001 15:00 CET 16 Views
The latest economic survey of the National Statistics Institute (NSI) reported positive developments in manufacturing and export.

According to the NSI, the manufacturing sector achieved 14 per cent revenue growth in the first two months of 2001. In the same period, export revenues increased 18 per cent, while revenues from the domestic market increased 7 per cent.

In February, the energy industry achieved export revenue growth of 161 per cent. The NSI further reported that, in March, inflation was 0.1 per cent, while for the first three months of 2001 it was 1 per cent.

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