OREANDA-NEWS. February 10, 2011. Growth of Moldova’s GDP in 2010 was about 7%, budget deficit - 2.5%, inflation - 8.1%. It was said by Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat at the meeting in Chisinau with the PACE Chairman Mevlut Cavusoglu. The Prime Minister expressed his confidence that the economic growth in Moldova will keep on in 2011.

He told about the Moldovan government’s reform program to be realized this year. The official data on GDP in 2010 haven’t been announced in Moldova yet. According to the National Statistics Bureau, Moldova’s GDP in January-September 2010 amounted to 52,214 million leis (\\$4.3 billion), up 6.5% against the same period of 2009.

The Moldovan government earlier said the country’s GDP could grow 7% in 2010. The EBRD recently raised the initial forecast of the GDP growth in 2010 from 4.5% to 6.5%, and in 2011 – from 3.5% to 4.5%. The IMF forecasted the 3.2% growth of Moldova’s GDL in 2010 but promised to revise the forecasts given the GDP growth dynamics for 9 months of 2010.