Northeast leads growth, GDP up 1.4%

(ANSA) - Rome, January 28 - Italy's northeast is leading Italy's hoped-for return to less-than-anaemic growth with GDP rising 1.4% there last year, ISTAT said Tuesday.
    Growth was 0.7% in the northwest, the stats agency said.
    It was also 0.7% in central Italy.
    In the poorer south growth was just 0.3%.
    Average national growth last year was 0.8%, ISTAT said.
    Per capita GDP "sees the northwest at the top of the standings," ISTAT said.
    This was more than 36,000 euros a head.
    It was almost double that in the south, around 19,000 euros, the stats agency said.