The government plans to project that real economic growth will be around 0.5 percent for fiscal 2010, a turnaround from a contraction of 3.3 percent projected for this fiscal year, government sources said Monday.
Government economists are expecting the first expansion of gross domestic product, adjusted for changes in prices, in three years as the global economic slowdown bottoms out, they said.
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