However, the OIE believes that gross domestic product this year could grow by 3-4 per cent if the current political unrest ends |within the next three months. |If this is the case, then the industrial sector's GDP would fall by |0.4 per cent. A projected 0.4-|per-cent contraction due to postponed investments in the public sector would result in a total 1.1-per-cent dip in industrial-sector GDP, or a loss of about Bt50 billion in the industrial sector, Somchai said.