The Lewis and Soligo article [1] includes an estimate of the
growth of all "large scale" industry followed by an analysis of the
growth rates of the major industry groups: consumer goods, intermediate
products, investment and related goods. These two parts of the article
are not dependent on each other and the very interesting and excellent
analysis of the differential growth rates of the subsectors would not be
affected by bias in the overall growth estimates. Some questions can be
raised about both parts of the article. Estimates of value added and
rate of growth of large scale industry are of considerable importance to
analyses of the Pakistan economy. Lewis and Soligo's estimate of the
level of value added and its rate of growth is considerably higher than
those of the Census of Manufacturing Industry (CMI), the National
Accounts, and my own [2].