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Bank bubble bursts as economy tanks
The earnings season is here, especially for those companies listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) and some financial houses…
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Bank bubble bursts as economy tanks
The earnings season is here, especially for those companies listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) and some financial houses…
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Things can only get worse now
Authorities—specifically the National Economic Management Committee chaired by the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development—had set very ambitious monetary…
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How government can avoid debt distress
The depressing news this week is that Malawi’s public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) gross debt is worsening both in absolute…
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draft Seed Policy: What are the threats?
Malawi’s agriculture is predominantly defined by small-scale farmers. In fact, studies show that 70 percent of smallholder farmers in the…
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Cut the Chaff
Ensure transparency in relief distribution
Much as it is distressing that 52 years after independence we should continue talking about food scarcity in Malawi, it…
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System to blame on university fees
I start my entry this week with two poignant quotations: “The school in many underdeveloped countries is a reflection…
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Soft targets in the health sector
There were protests by health personnel at Mwanza District Hospital where medical employees were accusing some of their senior managers…
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Pirates of the capital
Secretary to the Treasury Ronald Mangani was unequivocal during a Finance and Budget Cluster meeting when members of Parliament…
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Something wrong with our national accounts
So the World Bank has confirmed what some of us have been saying all along: the 5.1 percent projected economic…
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Latest IMF development is a big deal
When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive board completed its seventh and eighth reviews under Malawi’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF)…
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Ego is what ails Malawi’s leaders
A story is told that during the intense negotiations of debt relief in the mid 2000s or thereabouts under the…
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Keep hammering the message Mr. President
President Peter Mutharika has been busy—opening a district hospital here, visiting a grave there and attending to all manner of…
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Bold budget
The K1.2 trillion 2016/17 National Budget that Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe tabled in Parliament yesterday…
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Egypt moves to fill Africa’s leadership void
For nearly three years, Egypt has worked hard pivoting to Africa and smoothen its ties with the continent. Listening to…
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It was PAC that missed an opportunity
Someone asked about a bridge at some corner of the Northern Region. Another gripped about a road, the Njakwa-Livingstonia-Chitimba one…
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We need to start all over again
Six vehicles belonging to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) went on auction this week after the poll body failed to…
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This is Dr. Mangani’s moment
A few months ago, Secretary to the Treasury (ST) Dr. Ronald Mangani released a statement on enforcement of financial reporting…
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Transparency, accountability crucial on Admarc
It is good that the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development has guaranteed for State-owned grain trader—the Agricultural Development…
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Gondwe must now save his legacy
Lest we forget, it was Goodall Gondwe—as Minister of Finance—who, soon after Bingu wa Mutharika came to power in 2004,…
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