In the first half of 2011, the Guyanese economy achieved real economic growth of 5.9 percent continuing its robust performance of recent years and, in particular, building on its previous achievement of five consecutive years of positive growth since 2006. Underlying this overall expansion in real gross domestic product in the first half was growth in the non-sugar sectors of 5 percent, while the sugar sector also contributed to the overall acceleration in growth.
Finance Minster Ashni Singh in Parliament
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