Economics and Business Forum
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On interest rates and free food distribution
Rarely these days do we read our newspaper without coming across a reference either to the interest rates or inflation.…
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Mining industry: Lesson from Zambia
During colonial days in Malawi, we were being taught in civics that the relationship between a colony and its mother…
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On population, reform problems
While discussing the bill on abortion, some faith leaders are reported to have said the artificial forms of birth control…
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Getting things done better, differently (II)
In the autobiography of Lee, we learn that when Singapore started its independence its per capital income was 1 000…
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Getting things done better, differently
In the African Business magazine of February 2013, the editor Anver Versi quotes the great scientist Albert Einstein as having…
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Coping with the global economy
Since the 1990s, globalisation has become the economic buzzword. To define globalisation has not been easy. Someone said while he…
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Efficiency in government
Little hinges swing big doors. This is good. Little holes sink titanics. This is bad. The economy of Malawi is…
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Can we suddenly get rid of them?
Who? The ones some commentators dub as neo-colonialists? When I heard of Dambisa Moyo’s book Dead Aid with its message…
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Food shortages, congested areas
After World War II, big countries such as India were suffering grave food shortages and had to be supplied with…
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Public finance, govt functions
A government gets its revenue through taxes, fees and borrowing. The money is used to perform a number of functions.…
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Economics and psychology 2
Some people would not go into a business unless they see someone prospering. But a true entrepreneur is a pathfinder.…
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Will Malawi have a place in the African sun?
How do you encourage a person who is at the bottom of the good life to move ahead and improve…
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Thinking like economist
The most pressing issue all over the world is the economic problem. This problem hinges on scarcity of material, goods…
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Further notes on growth theories
Per capita income of a population improves if the growth rates of the gross domestic product (GDP) are higher than…
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Growth theories, Malawi economic woes
Once in a while, we come across someone who knows their subject well that we get intellectually or technically enriched.…
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Basics of economic growth 2
Human capital growth Human capital is made up of accumulated skills and knowledge. Most economists consider human capital as the…
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Basics of economic growth
The first prime minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew has been quoted in the media as saying he preferred to…
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Economics and psychology
It was at the end of the 1920s that John Maynard Keynes advised the would-be competent economists to be thoroughly…
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Consequences of social stratification
Social stratification has been universal in time and space. Human society was stratified in the past as it is today.…
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What is corporate strategy?
Until about the early 1960s what we usually refer to these days as a strategy used to be called a…
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