After a muted performance over the past 12 months, we expect GDP growth to accelerate in the second half of this year, albeit mainly because the drags from falling investment and inventories will fade. GDP growth should pick up from 1.5% this year to 2.2% in 2017, before it slows again to 1.7% in 2018.
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