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Someone needs to defend council secretariats
During my time at Treasury and the Local Development Fund (LDF), I worked with councils—whether at town, municipality, city or…
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Will Chaponda miss the big prize?
George Chaponda—the embattled vice-president of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for the Southern Region—will be 75 on November 1…
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Someone needs to defend council secretariats
During my time at Treasury and the Local Development Fund (LDF), I worked with councils—whether at town, municipality, city or…
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Treasury letting Malawians down
The Peter Mutharika administration has gone out of its way to tell anyone willing to listen that the Democratic Progressive…
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Treasury letting Malawians down
The Peter Mutharika administration has gone out of its way to tell anyone willing to listen that the Democratic Progressive…
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Chamber of Mines’ Lungu is right; but it’s all about information sharing
“The mining sector has always been looked at with a suspicious eye. There are certain fallacies and myths, which have…
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APM, DPP in disarray as Chaponda steals show
The Anti-Corruption Bureau’s (ACB) arrest on Wednesday of George Chaponda—the former Agriculture Minister and some say still powerful vice-president (Southern…
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World Bank’s new strategy scary
The World Bank Group—under Kim Yong Kim—is reshaping itself. Based on a speech he made at the prestigious London School…
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The problem with LDF
Not long ago, an audit into the construction of school blocks in Lilongwe City under the Local Development Fund (LDF)…
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Tread carefully on Lake Malawi water contract
I have looked at the legal and regulatory requirements governing large-scale infrastructure projects in Malawi and elsewhere. I have also…
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Are we setting the right precedent on women representation?
That Malawi needs more women representation in decision-making positions is a no-brainer. Women constitute the majority of the country’s population…
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From chaffy archives: The tragic cost of irresponsible public debt management
This week’s lamentations from the Malawi Economic Justice Network (Mejn) that the country could be stuck with high poverty levels…
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From chaffy archives: The tragic cost of irresponsible public debt management
This week’s lamentations from the Malawi Economic Justice Network (Mejn) that the country could be stuck with high poverty levels…
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Malawi’s maize trap
You might think that Malawi’s dualistic agriculture sector—made up of two sub-sectors; namely smallholder and estates—is all about maize. You…
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Are we setting the right precedent on women representation?
That Malawi needs more women representation in decision-making positions is a no-brainer. Women constitute the majority of the country’s population…
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What Kabambe’s appointment could mean
It was an open secret. As Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), Charles Chuka was not a ‘cultural…
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Chilima’s “Resignation”: Who is fooling who?
Easter, when Christians commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, came and went. Sadly on Easter Sunday, we had…
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Slowly, the economy is turning the corner
A few weeks ago, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission that came to assess Malawi’s economic programme signalled that the…
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A few issues on the next budget
I was wondering how long government would continue managing the national budget without a national development strategy? The last development…
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Govt can do better on governance bodies
It’s just a few weeks ago when Transparency International (TI) firmly pushed Malawi into the hall of shame when it…
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