1  In view of the more favourable movements in all three quarters, we raised our GDP growth forecast for this year from 6.5% to the range of 6.5% to 7%. This means that, cumulatively, in two pandemic years, Serbia will have one of the best results in Europe in terms of economic growth.
Peak-to-trough, lending rates on small loans have fallen from 6.24% to 2.42% in the twelve months up to September 2009; lending rates on large loans have fallen from 5.55% in September 2008 to 1.93% in September 2009.