Mali: when government gives entrepreneurs room to grow.

Abstract

Mali is a vast country, landlocked in the heart of the West African Sahel, covering
\n1,241,238 km2 with an estimated 13 million people. More than 65% of its land is
\ndesert or semi-desert. The country is fed by the great Niger and Senegal Rivers that
\nshape Mali’s young, market-based economy, still largely dominated by subsistence
\nfarming, herding and fishing. Industry is based on food processing, some textiles and
\ngold and phosphate mining. The economy remains vulnerable to price fluctuations in
\nits two main exports: gold and cotton.........