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From policy to practice: changing government attitudes towards the private sector in Malawi

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  • Richard Record

    (Ministry of Industry, Trade and Private Sector Development, Government of Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi)

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This paper reviews relations between government and the private sector in Malawi from independence to the present. The analysis charts the changing emphasis that official policy has attached to the role of the private sector throughout the transition from dictatorship to democracy; and from a PRSP that effectively ignored the role of the private sector in national development, to the current more balanced approach that recognises the private sector as the 'engine of economic growth' and the best means of achieving poverty reduction. However, in spite of progress, Malawi's private sector remains fragile and while the rhetoric from the highest levels of government towards the private sector has evolved, the enabling environment for private sector development is still inhospitable. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Richard Record, 2007. "From policy to practice: changing government attitudes towards the private sector in Malawi," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(6), pages 805-816.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:19:y:2007:i:6:p:805-816
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.1403
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