Moving to renewable and nuclear energy will cost an additional £60bn every year until 2050, according to official forecasts.

Indeed, its central bank said today that the official forecast of 1 percent economic growth this year might be exceeded.

The Administration's official forecast is 3.2 percent economic expansion this year.

Greece has been in recession for two years and on official forecasts this will be its third.

Congress has increased spending significantly since the budget office made its last official forecast, in March.

This year's official forecast is 45 percent, but the effects of the gulf crisis put that figure into question.

The official forecast for 2000 is four million visitors or more, triple the usual number.

The state's official economic forecast predicted Kansas could collect $251 million in general tax revenues.

But the lingering question for banking is the usefulness of the official forecasts.

The figure brought the annual inflation rate to 13.5 percent, well above the official forecast of 8 percent.