Economics and Business Forum
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Growing with business cycles
Hard times mean different things to different people. This largely depends on how old they are and how good their…
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Malawi needs cooperation not confrontation
From March 14 to 15, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) organised a conference at Limbe Cathedral in Blantyre to discuss…
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Hard times demand hard choices
Having made reference to patriotism in an earlier article, it is still necessary to make due cognisance of self-interest. People…
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On economic independence, unemployment, inflation
Zero-deficit is one of the most controversial topics in Malawi at present, yet some people who make statements about it…
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The poor and the rich
In Benjamin Franklin’s Almanak, we read questions and answers such as: Who is poor? The one who is not satisfied…
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How much should employees be paid?
The short answers to the question, ‘how much employees should be paid?’ would be as much as employers can afford,…
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Songs, sorrows about Chikangawa
Kondwani Munthali should be congratulated on his feature on the Chikangawa Forest published in The Nation of February 17 2012.…
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Malawi’s real wealth, misconceptions
The political weather of Malawi is stormy and acrimonious, largely because the Ministry of Information and Civic Education has not…
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War against corruption
On February 5 2012, I was one of the people who filled the College of Medicine hall in Blantyre to…
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Diversification: Whose responsibility?
Malawi is economically sitting on a time bomb. When time comes and the bomb explodes, there may be the dreaded…
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Reconciliation over private investment
Since there are cogent reasons both for encouraging foreign direct investment and banning it, in practice, what do governments do?…
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Economics versus justice
When we read of how newly-industrialised countries of the Far East emerged from the Third to First world economies, we…
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Private foreign investment
…Continued from Friday Last week, we discussed arguments in favour of foreign investments. Today, we will look at arguments against…
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Why food matters more
President Herzberg, the American industrial psychologist, taught that basic needs such as money are hygiene, not motivators. People do not…
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Relations between govt and business
Who should be consulted first when you want to plan the economic development of a country? It is the economist,…
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In the face of despair
Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish member of the House of Commons, advised those who in the face of hardships lost hope…
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Dilemmas of devaluation
While installing and elevating Chief Makwangwala to the rank of senior, President Bingu wa Mutharika spoke his mind on devaluing…
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Tough times and tough people
These days there is lamentation everywhere in Malawi about fuel shortage, forex and unemployment. Some people seem to think that…
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Malawi can solve these problems
When I hear or read that Malawi is a failed state, I feel something that is a mixture of horror,…
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Impact of economic problems on social life
Problems such as religious conflict, tribalism, racism and above all the greatest forms of conflict, war, have roots in economic…
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