Economics and Business Forum
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Management and national development
While regretting the existence of xenophoibia in his country, South Africa President Jacob Zuma put up a rejoinder: Why are…
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The art of job creation
The need for job creation has always been felt in this country though it has not been treated as…
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Economic consequences of SA xenophobia
When white settlers in South Africa (SA) discovered rich minerals and opened farms they that they could not achieve…
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Conquest of poverty in Malawi
Malawi has been classified by some observers as the poorest country in the world of course this has been vigorously…
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Continuing dialogue on public sector management
The first step in making progress in economic, social and otherwise is to identify your problems. Once you know what…
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Other economic terms worth knowing
A country produces goods in the domestic economy and sells some of them in the domestic market using the national…
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Learning economics through economic terms
Aristotle described man as a social animal, some scholars knowledgable in Greek say the Greek term he used is better…
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How to handle foreign direct investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an indispensable element in the development of underdeveloped counties also known these days as emerging…
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Foreign Direct Investment in China
I read in a press statement recently attributed to an NGO spokesperson that Malawi is poor because a few people…
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Malawi a country at bay
Five hours before I started working on a script for this article, I was visited by a representative of one…
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On too big to fail and subsidies
During the financial meltdown in Europe and North America, one phrase we read in magazines such as The Economist, was…
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Understanding and fighting inflation
Inflation is a general increase in prices and a fall in the value of money. There are three levels of…
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Why not Malawi?
Up to about 15 years ago, the profile of Africa among the continents of this planet was quite unattractive. People…
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Management in place of administration
Sometimes in the 1970s, there were moves among academicians and professionals that the British civil service, to be effective, must…
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Management of economy by objectives
Time management expert Edwin C. Blisc in his book, ‘Getting Things Done’, says certain things that are essential for success…
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On time management
While the majority of businesspeople repeated the time-worn slogan ‘Time is money’, Benjamin Franklin would say that time is life…
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An exemplary life: Louis Pasteur
During the past 10 years, the image of Africa as a developing continent has changed for the better. We understand…
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Business and government industrialisation
We hear now and again that Africans do not benefit much from exports of primary products because they are mere…
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The role of management in the economy
The first step in curing a patient is to diagnose the real disease. Headache or constipation may be only symptoms;…
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Uses, abuses of monopolies
As a preamble to the subject, let us first linger on three anecdotes. Recently, someone telephoned me from one of…
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