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Business and Economy in BerlinBerlin's economy is picking up from the long post-unification depression: but unlike other major capital cities, it's not the nation's economic motor and suffers from a number of structural deficencies which are only now being slowly overcome. Tuesday, September 25, 2007Once again Berlin's less-than-vibrant economy has failed to impress: according to the statistics office, the city's GDP growth rate in the first two quarters of 2007 was 1% (2.5% if inflation not taken into account), putting it last among Germany's 16 Bundesländer). Across Germany, on average, GDP grew by 2.9% after accounting for inflation. Comments (0) Posted at 7:04 AM in |