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Tourism strategy to push sector’s contribution to GDP
The department of tourism has said the much-awaited domestic tourism strategy will help to push tourism contribution to the…
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IMF tips on budget support resumption
Malawi should accelerate public financial management reforms to restore trust and confidence in the budget process and foster donor…
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Donors back health taxes
Health sector donors have asked the Malawi Government to devise creative ways of improving the taxation system and clear…
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Firm outlines four Economic threats
Portfolio and investment advisory management firm Nico Asset Managers Limited has outlined four risks that could stand in the way…
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Cumulative tea earnings down 39 percent
Cumulative earnings from tea, one of the country’s export crops, has dropped by 39 percent year-on-year to $2.7 million (K1.2…
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Malawi’s food security improves—report
Malawi’s food security situation has generally improved due to this year’s harvest, which has resulted in lower prices for the…
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Doubts on Malawi’s 2014 GDP projection
Economic experts have described the 6.3 percent real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate projection for 2014 as ambitious, forecasting…
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Robust mining communication strategy on the cards
Driven by the need to scale up communication flow in the mining sector, government is currently in the process of…
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Malawi industry output to shrink by 1.7 percent
Malawi’s industry, which contributes about one fifth of the country’s economic activities, is expected to shrink by about 1.7 percent…
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NGO calls for improved funding in Malawi mining sector
Malawi’s booming mining sector should result in increased funding, particularly to the Department of Mines, to enhance the development of…
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KUM suspension will not affect economy—IMF
Global multilateral lender, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has allayed fears that the suspension of Kayelekera Uranium Mine (KUM) in…
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Malawi has high potential in the mining sector
Since independence, Malawians has lived to believe that economy of the country is agriculture, many people know that the major…
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Reflecting on Malawi’s 50 years of post-independence gains and losses
Introduction This week Malawi celebrated 50 years of independence. During these 50 years there have been episodes of progress punctuated…
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No business as usual in mining sector—Atupele
Malawi’s newly appointed Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Atupele Muluzi has said it is high time Malawi stopped…
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Malawi dismisses CSOs on mining
Malawi’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining has dismissed accusations levelled against it by some civil society organisations (CSOs)…
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RBM calls for export financing
The country’s commercial banks need to accommodate the needs of the private sector particularly on financing production of exports to…
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Malawi economic growth rate below potential
Malawi’s economic growth is far below its full potential with the country’s 2013 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) having increased by…
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Goodall pledges economic stability
Newly-appointed Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe has described the state of the economy as ‘depressed’ saying there is little economic activity…
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The yellow cake that never cheered Malawi
Announced amid a huge political storm—a post election impasse refusing to abate—news that Australian energy giant, Paladin Energy Limited has…
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Malawi’s fiscal deficit worst in Africa—report
Malawi’s fiscal deficit—the difference between government expenditure and revenues—was the worst in Africa in 2013, according to World Bank publication…
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