The government has lowered its growth target for this year given a “very challenging external environment.”

The interagency Development Budget Coordinating Council (DBCC) on Monday said it had trimmed the 2016 gross domestic product growth (GDP) goal to 6.8 percent to 7.8 percent, down from 7 percent to 8 percent.

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