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Business Unpacked
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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Business Unpacked
Make customer service a lifestyle, not a favour
Findings of the inaugural National Customer Satisfaction Index have brought our structural service delivery gaps into sharp, scientific focus. For…
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Forex reserves: Real growth or clever arithmetic?
Data from the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) paint a deceptively sunny picture: the country’s total foreign exchange reserves are…
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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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