{"id":57330,"date":"2017-06-01T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/gdp-up-1-in-first-quarter\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:47:09","slug":"gdp-up-1-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/gdp-up-1-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP up 1% in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro &ndash; Brazil&rsquo;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) &ndash; the sum of all goods and services produced in the country &ndash; was up 1% in Q1 from Q4 2016 as per seasonally adjusted numbers. It was the first quarter-on-quarter increase after two years of shrinkage, with growth fueled strongly by agriculture and livestock farming. <\/p>\n<p>The information was made public this Thursday (1) in Rio de Janeiro by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Despite the hike, GDP was down 0.4% year-on-year in Q4, and down 2.3% in the four quarters through Q1 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Agriculture and livestock GDP was up 13.4% in Q1 from Q4, with industry expanding by 0.9%. Services sector GDP remained flat.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IBGE, Q1 GDP was BRL 1.6 trillion (USD ), adjusted to the current exchange rate. Q1 investments amounted to 15.6% of GDP, down from 16.8% in Q1 2016. The savings-to-GDP ratio was 15.7%, up from 13.9% in Q1 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buoyed by agriculture and livestock farming, Brazil\u2019s Gross Domestic Product increased for the first time after two straight years of quarter-on-quarter drops. In the 12 years through March, GDP slid by 2.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Buoyed by agriculture and livestock farming, Brazil\u2019s Gross Domestic Product increased for the first time after two straight years of quarter-on-quarter drops. In the 12 years through March, GDP slid by 2.3%.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}