Business Unpacked

Telecommunications terrain needs refining

Recently, two separate news stories relating to the telecommunications sector caught my eye. First was on concerns raised by some…

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Investment tips in the New Year

It is four days into the New Year 2018. Today, I rerun, albeit with some modifications, an article I did…

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Telecommunications terrain needs refining

  This week, two separate stories relating to the telecommunications sector caught my eye. The first was on concerns raised…

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Time to reflect on New Year goals

  How time flies! We are in December, the 12th month in the calendar year. Not so long ago we…

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Plan your festive season spending

  Today, we bid goodbye to the month of November 2017 and tomorrow we go into December—the last month of…

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Have reforms eluded parastatals?

  During consultations by the now dissolved Public Service Reforms chaired by Vice-President Saulos Chilima, one area of concern was…

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How to make State enterprises tick

In one recent article I discussed why some statutory corporations (SCs) or parastatals or indeed, in short, State enterprises continue…

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The price of running economy on gensets

  Desperate measures demand desperate solutions. That is the situation Malawi has found itself in as power generation has gone…

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When customers are taken for granted

  Businesses and their customers have a symbiotic relationship. They depend on each other. Businesses provide goods and services to…

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The folly of putting eggs in one basket

If you ask electricity users in Malawi when last they had uninterrupted supply of power from the national grid through…

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