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What do we know about pensions?
Pension is one of the most overused terms in our society regardless of whether one is in formal or informal…
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Operating beyond independence – Part 2
Last week, we discussed how you can achieve so much by going beyond independence, when you leverage the power of…
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Is Malawi pricing itself out of the global tourism market?
My classmate at the University of Cape Town plans to visit Malawi after I convinced him that it is one…
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Theory and practice of central banking
We live in an age of monetary economics. When you work for someone, he pays you in cash and not…
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Saulos and Sosten are candles in the sun
I expected to meet with a bossy, flamboyant and all-knowing young marketer. But that is not the Saulos Chilima I…
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Whose interest is govt selling Airline shares?
During Bakili Muluzi administration, government, under the ill-advice of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank indiscriminately sold state-owned…
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‘Account number one is breeding mistrust’
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) presidential candidate Mark Katsonga Phiri has been relentless in advancing the need to abolish government’s consolidated…
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Try harder on looting!
Honourable Folks, there’s no denying that winnowing ourselves from donor dependence is the desirable goal we must aim for. Every…
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JB must attend debates
April 22, 2014 President Joyce Banda’s handlers, who have convinced her to shun debates that Misa Malawi and other electoral…
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Teach siblings to manage finances
Those of you who are ardent Bible readers (or better still, conformers) will vividly recall Proverbs 22:6 ‘Train up a…
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Debate exposing ‘big name’ parties, candidates
If there is one thing that the historic nationally televised presidential debate has achieved, it is that it has exposed…
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Chikangawa plantation
We were at Kagwenthagwentha until around 3.00 a.m. doing what all sensible people worldwide do. Like all sensible people worldwide,…
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Economic forecasting in the public and private sectors
Economic forecasting is an indispensible function in the management of an economy or a firm. But forecasting future events whether…
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Land, housing and politics
Land is the most important resource. It gives us identity as it has identifiable boundaries which we swear to protect…
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When insurers give a raw deal
Insurance is one of the most common used, read or heard terms in the media or public conversations. It is…
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Operating beyond independence
Over the last four and half years, the Rise and Shine column has kept discussing the importance of gaining one’s…
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After Sir Alex, all that has come is despair
The aura of invincibility in a team and its winning ways has a lot to do with the faith that…
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On MCP manifesto and PP government
I read with interest but also disappointment references to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) manifesto which featured on the front…
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Beyond flaws of incumbents
There was a time, especially between 2010 and 2102, when opinion leaders in the country almost got everybody believe that…
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Surgery must be central—Professor Nyengo Mkandawire
Nyengo Mkandawire has joined the elite ranks of full professors. Last week, he presented an inaugural lecture at Comesa Hall…
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