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Numeric growth is never full
When Bakili Muluzi started going around the country with matches box, iron sheets and bars of maluwa soap to argue…
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Will indigenous businesses ever thrive?
A couple of decades ago government decided to move all Asian owned businesses to urban areas. Reasons resonated around giving…
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Social costs of crime
Crime is bad. From a religious point of view, it is clear, no matter which faith, unless you worship the…
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Costing your free lunch
I don’t mean to distract you. It is a Friday, in the middle of the month. The bank halls are…
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Getting SDGs into action
We can get this one right from the start. On November 4 1977, late president Hastings Kamuzu Banda opened Kamuzu…
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The privilege hoax
Investment bankers or call them modern day devils, I envy them. Those people in the high-rise offices on Wall Street,…
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Toughening up
choice and recognising that the landscape is not the same. After all, we do not operate in a vacuum. There…
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Is public debt an issue?
We all have run into debt at some stage in our lives for different reasons. Financial planners usually tell us…
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\Minimum wage insult
If you read economics with the seriousness of a dreamer, all countries will, at some stage, be the same. Their…
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Selling brand Malawi
It looks puzzling but sometimes you cannot miss the humour. Recently, a decision was made to abolish primary and junior…
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Pressure off the farmer
It has been torrid weeks with our currency on the fall. Those that have made to the banks have a…
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Mumbles of investment promotion
Scholar Lewis had his take on stages of development or better, growth. The statistics are, however, very worrying and do…
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Minimum wage insult
If you read economics with the seriousness of a dreamer, all countries will, at some stage, be the same. Their…
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Crunch it up
You should love some professions. Imagine making quick bucks for simply writing somebody’s Will before they meet their maker. The…
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Talking retirement
A fortnight ago, a colleague retired and we had a huge party or I better say, a series of them.…
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Talking retirement
A fortnight ago, a colleague retired and we had a huge party or I better say, a series of them.…
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Who is going green?
Never mind the rhetoric that comes from climate change extremist but it helps to pay attention to some of their…
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Numbering it up
This line is not new to you. Do not dare a cop if you have not mastered the fine print…
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The kwacha is not a problem
Over the last week, the Malawi kwacha has lost some ground against our major trading currencies. As is the case,…
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Manipulation highs
There are many things Malawian even though we do not pay attention. If you have been a trader on the…
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