Business Unpacked
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Narrowing the worsening trade deficit
For many years, Malawi’s trade balance has been widening despite government implementing an array of policy interventions to reduce the…
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Breathing life in State enterprises
Earlier this week, The Nation published a front page story under the headline Taxpayers Set To Bleed More. Based…
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Budget: The devil is in the detail
Predictably, members of Parliament (MPs) on both sides of the National Assembly on Friday unanimously cheered after passing the K1.45…
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Mortgaging the future of Malawi
Revelations that Malawi’s domestic debt is projected to rise by 473.6 percent because government plans to borrow about K176.1…
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Investment forum shouldn’t be a talking shop
Talking shop (noun): A place or group regarded as a centre of unproductive talk rather than action. Talking shop, according…
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Time to cut the cloth according to size
Revelations this week that Malawi’s domestic debt is projected to rise by 473.6 percent because government plans to borrow…
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When the budget is but a wish-list
For the fifth and final time in the 2014 to 2019 term of office, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and…
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Why insurance penetration remains low
Insurance penetration rate in the country remains one of the lowest in the world at 1.4 percent of the population,…
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The risk of doing nothing
Hardly a day goes by without a story that financial markets are in “bubble” territory. Stock markets around…
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What you need to know about pensions
Pension is generally understood to be a retirement savings plan where one saves part of their income today to…
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Fighting, measuring poverty
In March, the country launched the Third Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS III) as a tool to spur…
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Price discrimination at play?
In many cases, the relationship between most commercial banks and their customers has been one of mistrust, at least…
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Consumers deserve safety, fairness
March 15 is gone, but, as consumers of various goods and services, I feel it is not too late…
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Pre-budget consultations shouldn’t be road shows
It is that time of the year again when officials from the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development…
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Why insurance penetration remains low
Insurance penetration rate in the country remains one of the lowest in the world at 1.4 percent of the…
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Masm should give customers options
Effective September 1 the Medical Aid Society of Malawi (Masm), the country’s dominant provider of health insurance, has raised…
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Insurance should innovate to grow
Not long ago, Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Governor Dalitso Kabambe, in his capacity as registrar of financial services,…
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Why SIM registration suspension doesn’t make sense
I am yet to get convinced on the justification for the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology to suspend the…
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Reality check for the rosy economic picture
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe is one politician I have always admired for his honesty.…
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The price of running economy on gensets
Desperate measures demand desperate solutions. That is the situation Malawi has found itself in as power generation has gone…
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