Panama Economy Insight estimates that manufacturing GDP growht rate was by only 0.6% in 2009

Manufacturing value added contracted by 0.5% from January to September of 2009, according to information published by Comptroller. Electricity consumption (which is a measure of manufacturing performance) did not grow from January to October of 2009. Panama Economy Insight estimates that the value added of the manufacturing sector will grow just 0.6% 2009 and forecasts that grow by only 0.7% in 2010.