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Georgia’s economy is expected to grow in 2013 — perhaps faster than the country overall — and the Middle Georgia economy is expected to grow at about the same rate.

This was the conclusion of local and state economists who shared late last year their forecast for the coming year.

“I would submit that you could sum up the recovery of the past three and a half years … by asking the question: What concentration of the local economy was in construction or real estate or in durable manufacturing?” Roger Tutterow, professor of economics at Mercer University, said at the 2013 Georgia Economic Outlook luncheon held in December. “The more your local economy was in education and health care, the better it was.”

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