Cut the Chaff
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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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Muluzi is the fine one to talk!
The other day—nearly two weeks ago to be exact—former president Bakili Muluzi took time from his not-so busy schedule to…
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EU, Norway, UK stake out aid positions on the ‘Chaff’
There is no doubt that the Malawi Government’s fiscal position is precarious largely because a good chunk of the budget…
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The shame that is our forecasting and modeling expertise
What exactly is Secretary to the Treasury Newby Kumwembe saying? Was he making sense even to himself when he told…
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