While growth is forecast to slow to about half that pace this quarter, it will keep the economy on track to expand 3.1percentthis yearar, the most in three years.
Since the end in 1995 of the construction-driven boom that followed unification, the area's economy has grown at about half the (already snail-like) pace of Germany's western states.
Retailers reported a modest 2.6% rise in same-store sales over June 2005, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, about half the growth pace of a year ago over June 2004.
About half the youths are unemployed.
"Industrial production is now growing 7percentt compared to last year, but I think at the end of the year, we'll be at about half that pace".
It is recommended to leave the pacing generator set at half the pacing threshold.
She forecasts a deceleration of about half that pace this year.The more sedate reality is sinking in.
Even with the gains, the rate of construction for all homes is only about half the 1.5 million annual pace that most economists consider healthy.
Across the private sector, companies added only about 4,000 jobs a day during the last nine months of 2000, half the pace during the previous year.
That is half the pace of the previous six months.
