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Fiscal wishful thinking on growth targets must fall
For decades now, every fiscal year in Malawi starts with a familiar ritual where the Minister of Finance sets highly…
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Costly bottlenecks frustrating tourism growth
Malawi is currently commemorating National Tourism Month, a dedicated period to build momentum for the annual World Tourism Day on…
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Business Unpacked
Costly bottlenecks frustrating tourism growth
Malawi is currently commemorating National Tourism Month, a dedicated period to build momentum for the annual World Tourism Day on…
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Business Unpacked
Colleagues, ‘money is there’: Reset priorities
Faced with persistent funding requests from legislators and Cabinet colleagues, Uganda’s former Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija, famously used to…
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Business Unpacked
End of 6-year drought, welcome CHL plc
For six years—or 72 long months—the bell at the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) in the old Reserve Bank of Malawi…
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Aid entitlement syndrome won’t actualise MW2063
In her 2009 book, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa, Zambian…
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When the budget ‘ghost’ strikes again
When I titled my Business Unpacked entry of March 12 2026 ‘Budget targets could be dead on arrival, act now’,…
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Business Unpacked
No economic independence without decisive leadership
Malawi Malawi on July 6 this year clocked 62 years of independence without fanfare after President Peter Mutharika earlier directed…
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Business Unpacked
Poverty data should drive change of course
Data in the Sixth Integrated Household Survey (IHS6) the National Statistical Office (NSO) unveiled on Friday in Lilongwe present a…
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National News
Development dreams up in smoke yet again
Malawians’ aspirations to alter the economic trajectory and graduate from poverty to prosperity appear to be up in smoke once…
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