1. Negative growth is often accompanied by a negative output gap in an economy ( where potential output exceeds actual demand ) .
2. Often , negative growth is also accompanied by a negative output gap in an economy ( where actual production exceeds potential demand ) .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Choose from:
(A). no.
(B). yes....I think the answer is
(A).