But comparisons by the Item Club of economists are a bit unfair, or at least misleading.
With employment on track to fall next year, only sluggish recovery will follow, the Item Club said.
While the Item Club, using the Treasury forecasting model, has also downgraded its UK forecasts, both years put Scotland behind.
The latest analysis and forecast from the Item Club Scotland points out there are other telling comparisons closer to home.
Coming further up-to-date, the Scottish Item Club has a telling analysis of the Scotland's jobs market over the downturn so far.
Professor Peter Spencer, the Item Club's chief economic adviser, said its downgrade was mainly due to the squeeze on household income.
It's not that easy to say for sure, but the Item Club economists suggest it might be explained by sectoral changes in employment.
According to forecasting group, the Ernst and Young Item Club, inflation and subdued pay rises will leave Britons with less cash to spend.
The firm's Item Club forecast predicts strong growth and below-target inflation, but tighter profit margins which could hit investments and jobs by next year.
While Item Club forecasts are downbeat for Scotland over this year and next, it finds that growth has been relatively strong over the medium-term past.
The Item Club says that the change should be used by the Treasury to "review the remit" that it gives the Bank's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee.
And the Item Club throws in a warning that the debate over corporation tax powers and an independence referendum is creating uncertainty, which could harm business investment in Scotland.
For example, one economic forecaster, the Item Club, said that the UK would generate about three-quarters of the revenues from any FTT if it was applied across the European Union.
The Item Club report said that as the government continued with its "plan A" of cutting public spending to try to reduce the UK's public deficit, the economy was "muddling through".
Regarding the Bank of England, the Item Club said the 2% inflation target had become "a risk to the credibility" of the Bank, and that the target was "long-past its sell-by date".
And if Scotland's growth rate lags, as the Item Club forecasts for this year and next, then that would mean a lower increase in aggregate earnings from which that tax revenue is drawn.
The Scottish Item Club twice-yearly forecast confirms there are big job losses afoot in the public sector, but it highlights indications that the private sector is on track to do well at replacing them.
The following year, the Item Club forecasts Scottish growth rising to 1.8% and then up to 1.9% for the next two years, while the UK as a whole is back to 2.4% each year.
The Item Club highlights the importance of the large and diverse business services sector in being the main engine of growth, while manufacturing has stagnated and construction remains about 10% below its pre-downturn output.
The Item Club also says that the government's choices include sticking to the current inflation target of 2% - which could mean no more interest rate cuts for some time, and therefore lower economic growth.
The Item Club said that unresolved worries about the global economy, with Greece a major threat to the financial system and the Republic of Ireland a particular worry to UK banks, were likely to hold back UK business investment.
Yet despite the Item Club's concerns, it did say that the UK economy should see at least short-term growth, "driven by improving prospects for the consumer, with falling inflation and rising employment levels boosting disposable income, helping to revive the High Street".
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