MEF projects GDP to be closed at 6.3% until 2014

Direction of Social and Economic Analysis of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) predicts that the Panamanian economy will close 2014 with an increase in gross domestic product (GDP) by 6.3%.
This, after the first nine months of this year reached a total real GDP was 6.1%, according to a survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).

In accordance with the MEF, this estimate is consistent with the IMF, which is expected to 6.6%, and the Economic Commission of the United Nations for Latin America and the Caribbean, whose is forecast at 6.0%.

The ninth month of 2014, the economy of Panama, through the real GDP has created 26 thousand and 201,7 millions of dollars, according to statistics from INEC.

Various sectors of the economy reflects this spectacular growth in the third quarter of this year, such as the construction of a 16% mobilization with around 3501,8 millions of dollars and mining by 12.8%, generating 357.2 million dollars, according to the Official Gazette.