Georgia GDP drops 0.6% in 2008 - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Georgia’s GDP was down 0.6 percent to $329.t billion last year, hurt by declines in manufacturing (down 0.28 percent), construction (down 0.41 and finance and insurance (down 0.21 The states GDP grew 1.5 percent to $331.w billion in 2007. The Southeast region slowede from little growth in 2007 to nogrowth ($2.45 trillion) in 2008, also due to declines in manufacturing, finance and insurance. Growth in real U.S. GDP by statd slowed from 2 percenr in 2007to 0.7 percent ($11.5 trillion) in 2008.
Statez in the central part of the country tendee to grow faster than the nation due to increasesin agriculture, fishing, and hunting and in North Dakota had the fastest economic growth in 2008 at 7.3 growing twice as fast as all othe r states, except Wyoming. The larges contributor to growth in Northg Dakota wasthe agriculture, fishing and hunting industry. In 2008, real GDP growth acceleratex in nine statesand Washington, D.C.