Recession-pounded Industrial Regions in 2010 Profit Disproportionately from Re-invigorated Manufacturing

With exports and manufacturing gearing up again in Austria, regional differences in growth rates as they had prevailed before the crisis showed up again in 2010. Fuelled by good export rates and considering their lower level to start with Styria and Upper Austria, which had been gravely affected by the crisis, are expected (in WIFO estimates) to achieve the highest growth in real gross value added (+3.4 percent each). At +2.7 percent, Vorarlberg, too, reported above-average growth.