January 2016 GDP Forecast | Sharp drop in short-term consumer credit lowers growth forecast
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January
2016
ISET-PI has updated its forecast for Georgia’s real GDP growth rates using the November 2015 releases of various economic indicators.
- We have recently updated the GDP series (the dependent variable in our model), using the revised GDP growth rates available from Geostat.
- Based on the November data, the forecast for GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2015 now stands at 3.4%. This is 0.1 percentage points lower than in the previous vintage of the forecast.
- Annual growth for 2015 is still expected to be 2.9%.
- According to the second vintage of the forecast for 2016, the growth rate in the first quarter is predicted to be 3.5%. Once again, this is 0.1 percentage points below our previous prediction.