The average GDP growth rate later dropped to 3.2 per cent during 1976–80. This level was sustained in the period 1982–90 following improved performance in agricultural and industrial sub-sectors.
Table 2 Average growth rate of real GDP (Percentages)  BIS Review 166/2010  9  Suffice it to state that GDP responded favorably to the economic adjustment policies of the eighties during which the SAP and economic liberalization were adopted. Thus, annual GDP grew from a negative 0.6 per cent in 1987 to 13.0 per cent in 1990.