Business Unpacked

Cama making sense on Escom tariff hike proposal

Finally, the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) and the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) last week kicked off their…

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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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Dr Mkwezalamba is real deal, but…

President Joyce Banda’s choice of Dr. Maxwell Mlwezalamba as new Minister of Finance was spot on, at least in my…

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