PARIS (AFP) - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday increased its forecast for growth in the US economy this year but slashed its predictions for Japan and the eurozone. The OECD, the Paris-based grouping of 30 developed countries, said growth in the US economy would be 1.8 percent this year compared to 2007, a sharp upwards revision from a prediction in June of 1.2 percent. Growth in the Japanese economy would be 1.2 percent instead of 1.7 percent and the eurozone would expand by 1.3 percent instead of 1.7 percent, the organisation said in an interim assessment...
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