Business Unpacked
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When insurers give a raw deal
Insurance is one of the most commonly used, read or heard terms in the media or public conversations. It is…
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Why is our investment climate gloomy?
Yet another survey on investment destinations and businessenvironment in general has poorly ranked Malawi. Through its banner headline last Thursday,…
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What’s in store for the economy?
With less than four months to go to the May 20 2014 Tripartite Elections when Malawians will elect their president,…
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If this isn’t a rip-off, what is?
To many Malawians, making a call or sending a text message has become a luxury as very few of them…
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Fresh hope for power all day?
News about the commissioning of the much-talked about phase two of the Kapichira Hydro-Electric Power project in Chikhwawa should be…
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Celebrating some success stories
In life, it is not often that people give credit where it is due, taking time off to pat one…
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Make things happen in 2014
If you are reading this, be very grateful to God the Almighty for allowing you and me to make it…
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Bye 2013, where do we go from here?
This is my last entry of Business Unpacked in 2013 as today is the last Thursday of this year. Before…
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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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Kwacha fall begs more questions
In an ideal situation, principles of demand and supply tell us that where demand is higher than supply, then, naturally,…
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Banks should justify kwacha fall
In August this year, when Standard Bank (Malawi) Limited ruled out the possibility of the economy experiencing massive, or what…
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