Business Unpacked
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Narrowing the worsening trade deficit
For many years, Malawi’s trade balance has been widening despite government implementing an array of policy interventions to reduce…
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Narrowing the worsening trade deficit
For many years, Malawi’s trade balance has been widening despite government implementing an array of policy interventions to reduce the…
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Breathing life in State enterprises
Earlier this week, The Nation published a front page story under the headline Taxpayers Set To Bleed More. Based…
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Budget: The devil is in the detail
Predictably, members of Parliament (MPs) on both sides of the National Assembly on Friday unanimously cheered after passing the K1.45…
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Mortgaging the future of Malawi
Revelations that Malawi’s domestic debt is projected to rise by 473.6 percent because government plans to borrow about K176.1…
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Investment forum shouldn’t be a talking shop
Talking shop (noun): A place or group regarded as a centre of unproductive talk rather than action. Talking shop, according…
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Time to cut the cloth according to size
Revelations this week that Malawi’s domestic debt is projected to rise by 473.6 percent because government plans to borrow…
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When the budget is but a wish-list
For the fifth and final time in the 2014 to 2019 term of office, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and…
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Why insurance penetration remains low
Insurance penetration rate in the country remains one of the lowest in the world at 1.4 percent of the population,…
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The risk of doing nothing
Hardly a day goes by without a story that financial markets are in “bubble” territory. Stock markets around…
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