According to provisional estimates of national income accounts, real GDP remained at its long-term growth path in FY06 with a growth rate of 6.6 percent. While this growth is marginally lower than the 7.0 percent annual target, this is quite impressive given the aftermath of the earthquake, the relatively poor harvests of key crops, the impact of high oil prices and rising domestic interest rates. The greater contribution to this high growth rate is by the services sector, which exhibited a remarkable 8.8 percent growth during FY06 as compared to the 4.3 percent growth of the commodity-producing sector in the same period. Within the services sector, the highest growth was seen in finance & insurance (23.0 percent) followed by wholesale & retail trade (9.9 percent).