Ghana's unadjusted economic growth rate rose sharply to 4.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2015 compared with a revised figure of -3.8 percent in the same period last year, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The agriculture sector, helped by livestock, recorded the highest growth rate at 7.4 percent year-on-year. The industry sector contracted by 0.9 percent and services, especially data usage for cell phones, grew at 4.7 percent, government statistician Philomena Nyarko told a news conference.



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