News Malawi Economy: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Visits Malawi to Discuss New Program to Advance Economic Growth
A delegation from the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), led by MCC CEO Sean Cairncross, visited Malawi this week to discuss the development of a second MCC compact program to ...
News Malawi Economy: Malawi: Conservation Caucus, UNDP Welcome Malawi Ban On Plastic Bags As 'Fantastic Victory'
The Malawian Parliamentary Conservation Caucus (MPCC), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Lilongwe Wildlife Trust claim that banning thin plastics will help tackle rising levels of plastic pollution and deliver long-term savings to the economy.
News Malawi Economy: Malawi: Economy to Grow By 5% - Reserve Bank Urges End of Demo
Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has announced that it has maintained the policy rate--also known as the bank rate--at 13.5 percent and that the country's economy is expected to grow by 5% this year, up from 4% the previous year.
News Malawi Economy: Malawi: State Rights Body Mhrc Calls for Protests Ceasefire - Analyst Says 'High Level of Hypocrisy'
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC ... David Nungu says the protests will negatively affect the country's economy and greater suffering of the people. "These negative effects could be avoided ...
News Malawi Economy: Malawi: Chitipa Warned Against Using Banana Suckers From Other Districts
"An agro-based economy like Malawi will benefit a lot from the three interventions we have launched today. "Through the interventions, farmers will increase their production with locally available ...
News Malawi Economy: Malawi: African Development Bank boosts cyclone response with emergency relief package and measures to combat climate change
Goodall E. Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development; Hon. Nicholas Dausi, Minister of Homeland Security; and Dr. Dalitso Kabambe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi. Magala ...
News Malawi Economy: Renewable Energy Access and Socio-Economic Development in Malawi
In October 2018, Oxfam contracted an external evaluation of a project focused on access to renewable energy on social and economic development for smallholder farmers in Malawi. Between April 2015 and ...
News Malawi Economy: Magufuli opens Malawi tobacco market: Mutharika orders tax exemption for small–scale farmers
The Malawi leader said government always thinks about farmers, investors, and the economy, adding that the economy needs to grow with stability. In his remarks, Mutharika also said fertilizer prices ...