Slower Growth By H212

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The sharp decline in consumer price growth since H211 has helped to boost real GDP growth rates higher in recent quarters, an effect we see unwinding over the course of H212. We therefore hold to our below-consensus real GDP growth forecast of 5.4% for 2012, but acknowledge that near-term risks to our view are skewed to the upside.