And it appears that the impetus from fiscal policy will stay expansionary, on net, through this year. These circumstances all should spur the expansion of aggregate demand in 2004. At the same time, increases in efficiency and a significant level of underutilized resources should help keep a lid on inflation.
And, as I will show later, there are many sectors like sugar, gold and garments that are not doing too well. In fact, if it were not for the tourism and construction sectors, the economy would be in a very difficult situation today. Medium term projection For the next two years, we expect economic performance to be below 2 percent.