per annum over the period chirwa 2003this early success is associated with the period when thwe malawi Government implemented the import substitution industrialisation and the protectionnist economic policies together with the export
led agricultural development strategy Despite the adoption of structural adjustment programmes Saps with traed liberalisation as the main guiding policy instrument Malawi manufacturing sector has remained relatively small and underdeveloped and its performance remains dismal when compared to the period under protectionist economic policies it
contributed about 14 percent of GDP in1999 down from 17 perin 1944 and dropped further to about 11 percent in 2003 word trade Organisation WTO 2002 Malawi Government 2004; NSO,2006 these different trade policy regimes with