anchor: Its annual growth rate, however, fell from 6.7 percent in 1987-90 to 1.9 percent in 1990-93 and further to 0.2 percent in 1993-97.
positive: Annual growth was slower in the 1990s than in the late 1980s.
negative: Its annual growth rate increased from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.