The Dutch economy grew 0.6% in the first three months of 2010, compared with the year-earlier period, the national statistics office CBS said on Thursday.

Quarter on quarter the increase was 0.3%, the CBS said.
The growth figure is 0.5% higher than the CBS had said in its initial estimate on May 12.
On Wednesday, the government’s CPB macro-economic forecasting agency said the economy will grow 1.25%, revising down its earlier forecast.