The Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter this year was up by 2.3 per cent, provisional estimates released by the National Statistics Office show. Growth in value-added during the first quarter was registered in hotels and restaurants, wholesale and retail, sub-sectors of manufacturing, transport, storage and communication, real estate, renting and business activities, mining and quarrying, education in health, agriculture and fishing and other community, social and personal service activities. A drop was registered in the electricity, gas and water supply sector, while the financial intermediation, construction and public administration ­sectors remained practically unchanged.

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