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Problems about surplus graduates
Let us begin with anecdotes. A humble looking businessperson called at a bank to open an account. In his…
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When is an economy truly transformed?
Looking at the physical and social infrastructures he had built, Dr Hasting Kamuzu Banda boasted that he had transformed…
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Wandering thoughts on Malawi economy
The long awaited National Planning Commission has at least been established with well-qualified members. Ideas from the public should…
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Brevities on economic forecasts
In the Weekend Nation of January 27 2018, timely warnings were given by spokesperson of the International Monetary Fund…
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The poorest countries since then
In 1978, the Independent Commission on International Development Issues whose chairperson was Herr Willy Brandt started its work in…
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How corruption and inflation affect economies
Corruption is one of those vices that are worldwide. One never reads about any country developed or underdeveloped without coming…
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The tobacco paradox, other issues
The above is a heading of an article found in the Christmas double issue of The Economist of December…
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Incentives for civil servants
In 1891, the British government grouped tribal States and chiefdom they found south and west of Lake Malawi…
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Role of subsidies in economic development
With the advent of independence beginning with Ghana in 1957, a number of presidents introduced what they called African…
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Economic revolution in Malawi
On 16th September 2017, I attended a session at Jacaranda Cultural Centre in Blantyre, where I was introduced as…
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Economic revolution in Malawi
Inefficient public (State) corporations were the second albatross in the neck of the United Kingdom. With advisers like Professor…
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Economic revolution in Malawi
On 16th September 2017, I attended a session at Jacaranda Cultural Centre in Blantyre, where I was introduced as…
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Farewell to a great friend of Malawi
That Nyasaland was the poorest colony in 1924 sounds very modern. The Phelps Stokes Commission identified transportation problems especially…
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Things fall apart in Malawi
Though some overseas people who visit Malawi such as Paul Theroux, ex-Peace Corps from the United States, write offensive…
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Why and who should study economics
Economics is a branch of social sciences which is concerned with people’s behaviour in the course of making a…
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Agricultural development, social change
An American sociologist went to do research in the Ivory Coast two years after the country had gained independence…
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Agricultural development, social change
An American sociologist went to do research in the Ivory Coast two years after the country had gained independence…
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Education for great achievements
When we read about the newly industrialised countries of the Far East (the Four Tigers), we learn that they…
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Another cause of Malawi’s poverty
Recently, a young student of journalism visited me at the office of Aggrey Memorial School and sought my opinion…
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Agricultural production, economics and policies
We read in the press that inflation has almost halved from what it was during the previous rainy seasons. This…
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