Malawi’s industrial dream built backwards – The Mail & Guardian

Malawi’s industrial dream built backwards – The Mail & Guardian

Five years into Malawi’s flagship long-term development plan, government data shows a widening gap between the country’s industrial ambitions and progress. Malawi has completed 87% of the activities outlined in its national industrialisation plan. But only 40% of the plan’s targets are on track to be met. That gap, now officially documented, defines the central failure of industrial policy in one of the world’s poorest countries. The finding is …