World Bank and Belarusian government’s forecasts are different
Belarus’ GDP growth rate will go down to 2.5% in 2011.
This is the forecast made by the World Bank this June. The AFN reminds that Belarus’ GDP growth rate totaled 7.6% in 2010. At the same time, the Belarusian authorities predict the GDP growth rate to be four times bigger – by 9-10%.
By the way, according to the World Bank’s forecast, the economy growth rate will increase to 3% this year and to 4% - in 2012.