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Mauritius maintains GDP growth forecast at 3.90 pct for 2016, rebases economic data

View of the harbour of Port Louis on the Indian Ocean island Mauritius, August 5, 2015. Picture taken August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen (Reuters)

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius has maintained its economic growth forecast for this year at 3.90 percent from 3.50 percent last year, its statistics office said on Friday. It said it had also changed its base year for compiling data to 2013 from 2007 used previously. (Reporting by Jean Paul Arouff; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Edmund Blair)