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Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
economic outlook
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1468-0319
pISSN - 0140-489X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0319.12287
Subject(s) - economics , slowdown , inflation (cosmology) , econometrics , inflation rate , agricultural economics , macroeconomics , interest rate , economic growth , physics , theoretical physics
The final estimate for Q1 2017 saw quarterly GDP growth unrevised at just 0.2%, the weakest outturn in a year. The main cause of the slowdown was a much weaker performance from the consumer sector, with the impact of higher inflation having started to bite.