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Beyond the financial literacy week
From Monday December 9 2013, the Reserve Bank of Malawi in partnership with stakeholders in the financial services sector is…
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Kwacha free-fall spells hard times
Things do not look good for the Malawian consumer in the short to medium term. With Christmas and New Year…
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Why I see PAC interviews as a talking shop
Malawi my beloved country has never ceased to amaze me. Many times I have likened what goes on around the…
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Mera, Escom should spare us roadshows
They are at it again. The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) and the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) have…
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What next after donor aid freeze?
It is official. Malawi’s major donors under the banner of the Common Approach to Budgetary Support (Cabs) have frozen their…
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This is bad business culture
From time immemorial, I have always wondered why many of our businesses, especially shops, behave like printed books whose contents…
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Some light at the end of the tunnel?
In 2009 or thereabouts, courtesy of the performance of the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), Malawi earned itself an…
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What’s in a forensic audit?
Forensic audit has become such a magic and trendy term that a day hardly passes without hearing it several times…
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Kwacha fall begs more questions
In an ideal situation, principles of demand and supply tell us that where demand is higher than supply, then, naturally,…
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Business News
Malawian among 2013 Black Business Achievers
United States of America (USA)-based Malawian entrepreneur Chauncy Mopho Jere was on September 28 named among the 2013 Black Business…
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Banks should justify kwacha fall
In August this year, when Standard Bank (Malawi) Limited ruled out the possibility of the economy experiencing massive, or what…
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Get well soon Paul Mphwiyo
What started as a normal Saturday morning for me was spoiled with a text message on WhatsApp from a Lilongwe-based…
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Breathing life into Malswitch
Change is inevitable. It is the currency of progress. Yet, naturally, human beings resist change. Change occurs in two ways:…
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Why MSB needs new investors
Watching from the sidelines, I have always seen Malawi Savings Bank (MSB), the commercial bank 100 percent owned by government,…
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Why I can’t wait for Malawian Airlines
In The Nation newspaper edition of August 14 2013, Economic Empowerment Action Group president Lewis Chiwalo cried foul over fares…
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Where will more forex come from?
This week, Standard Bank Malawi Limited, one of the commercial banks operating in the country, made an interesting statement about…
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Of VAT-exempt internet services and policies
In his 2013/14 National Budget Statement, Malawi’s Minister of Finance Ken Lipenga announced the reintroduction of input value added tax…
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Not all ‘special offers’ are in good faith
In an economy where the cost of living is on the rise, with ever rising prices of goods and services,…
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Escom should justify high tariffs
Half the time they live without power, yet at the end of every month, they get ever-rising electricity bills for…
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