Although the manufacturing sector grew at 18% and 15% respectively in the preceding two years, decline in its growth rate is notable. The performance of this sector is impacted by some of the structural issues typical of Pakistan’s manufacturing sector. Manufacturing sector is now beginning to slowly diversify and modernize itself. Presently, almost three-fourths of the production stems from the large-scale manufacturing sector.
This is not a purely hypothetical question. The Bundesbank’s corporate financial statement statistics, which contains data on German non-financial corporations, are based on several sources, a key one being a data pool with financial statements provided on a voluntary basis by credit institutions and financial service providers. The individual institutions cannot access the micro data of the other parties.