The government recently cut the African nation's 2009 GDPgrowth forecast to 3 percent in

The government recently cut the African nation's 2009 GDPgrowth forecast to 3 percent in 2009 from an initial estimate of11.8 percent. However, the government has repeatedly rejected a growingconsensus among international organisations that predict thatAngola will enter into a recession this year for the first timesince the end of an almost three-decade long civil war in 2002. The International Monetary Fund expects Angola's grossdomestic product to fall by 3.6 percent in 2009 while theOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) andthe African Development bank see a 7 percent decline. Their estimates are based on a drop in oil revenues, whichare set to fall by 50 percent this year, according to the WorldBank, as the worst economic downturn since the Great Depressioncontinues to weigh on prices. Although oil prices have been on an upward trend sincemid-April, breaking the $60 a barrel barrier this week, they arestill far from record highs above $147 in July. For a factbox on Angola, please click [ID:nL6619828] (Reporting by Henrique Almeida; Editing by Toby Chopra).

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