Madrid, Jan 28 (AFP\/APP): Spain’s economy grew by 5.0 percent in 2021, showing a remarkable bounce back from a year earlier but below the government’s target, an initial estimate by the National Statistics Institute showed Friday.<\/p>\n
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The government had expected gross domestic product (GDP) to rise by 6.5 percent in 2021 after a year in which it contracted sharply by nearly 11 percent in one of the worst results of the euro zone.<\/p>\n
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The result however is higher than the expectations of the IMF and the OECD, which had expected 4.6 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madrid, Jan 28 (AFP\/APP): Spain’s economy grew by 5.0 percent in 2021, showing a remarkable bounce back from a year earlier but below the government’s target, an initial estimate by the National Statistics Institute showed Friday. The government had expected gross domestic product (GDP) […]<\/p>\n
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