Gold lifted an otherwise dismal half-year performance by the economy, resulting in 2 percent economic growth for the first part of the year as El Nino hit the sugar and rice sectors hard and wholesale and retail trade plunged.
“The positive growth performances in the mining sector and some services subsectors served to partially offset the below par performances of the agriculture, construction, and wholesale and retail sectors. As a result the overall growth projection for 2016 has
