GDP, Istat: in 2015 + 0.8%. After three years Italy returned to growth – Rai News

This growth comes after three consecutive years of declines. Renzi. “The numbers show that Italy is back”

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01 March 2016 in 2015, GDP at market prices totaled 1,636,372,000 current euro, an increase of 1.5% over the previous year. GDP in volume and ‘increased by 0.8%, an increase after three consecutive years of declines. This was announced by ISTAT.

The data available for the main developed countries indicate an increase in GDP by volume in the United States (2.4%), the UK (2.2%), Germany (1, 7%) and in France (1.2%). On the side of domestic demand in 2015 are recorded, in terms of volume, positive changes in the national final consumption (0.5%) and gross fixed capital formation (0.8%).

As for flows with foreign countries, exports of goods and services increased by 4.3% and imports by 6.0%. Domestic demand contributed positively to GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points (1.0 gross of inventories) changes while net foreign demand made a negative contribution of 0.3 points.

at the sector level, the value added in agriculture has registered increases in volume, forestry and fishing (3.8%), in industry excluding construction (1.3%) and in the activities’ of services (0.4%) . The buildings have registered a decline of 0.7%.

Renzi. “The numbers show that Italy is back”
“The numbers show that Italy is back. We will not let in the hands of doom who enjoy when things go wrong.” He writes it on Facebook Premier Matteo Renzi, commenting on Istat data. Then he says: “With this government taxes go down, the employed going up, the chatter of owls instead are zero”