the existing domestic market structures could have played a significant role in the performance of the sector
the paper uses econometric analysis to evaluate the impact of changes in economic policies and market structure on the performance of the manufacturing sector in Malawi It specifically investigates the impact of trade policy changes and market structure on the price-cost margins using enterprise level data spanning over the period 1967 to 2002 in the manufacturing
industries involved in the annual economic survey by the National statistical Office NSO the study could not include data beyond 2002 due to unavailability of consistent datasets after 2002 Despite a growing body of empirical literature on the effects of trade policy changes especially tade liberalisation in most developing and emerging economies there has been no study with regard to the authors knowledge that has looked at