In other words, after adjusting for the effect of natural gas production, the forecast is for some acceleration of growth in 2014, and not the opposite. With that, data for the first quarter of 2014 were recently published, and were disappointing.
GDP grew at a rate of 2.1 percent,  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  including a decline in private consumption, not only in the consumption of durables, but also in current consumption, which is very rare. The last time we saw negative growth in private consumption was at the height of the global financial crisis.