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This paper examines public attitudes to economic reform in Zambia. It discusses four questions. First, what do ordinary citizens think about the package of market-oriented reforms that shaped the economic policy agenda after the country's transition to multiparty democracy in 1991? Second, how has public opinion evolved on key policy questions regarding limits to state intervention and the introduction of market mechanisms? Third, who among Zambians supports or opposes the reforms associated with economic stabilization and structural adjustment? And, finally, what factors explain popular demand for economic reform, if any, and mass perceptions of whether benefits are being supplied?