Pic by UNOPS Global development finance is entering a harsher season. Aid volumes dipped in 2024 for the first time in five years, while indebted low‑income countries faced escalating debt service and shrinking fiscal space. Against this backdrop, one question reigns supreme: is Global North private sector activity, both via profit‑shifting practices and the growing use of “private sector instruments” in aid, crowding out government revenue and, in turn, squeezing public assi

Pic by NC State University The national reflex in times of hunger is predictable: buy more maize, shore up ADMARC stocks, and pray the rains arrive on time. “Chimanga ndi moyo” (maize is life) is more than a proverb; it is a policy reflex, a political promise, a cultural comfort. Yet, the economics are unforgiving and the climate is changing faster than our budget lines and slogans. If we want food security and real self‑reliance, we must look beyond expensive, input‑hungry m

Photo by WFP/Giulio d'Adamo Watching our economy navigate the most severe crisis in a generation, one believes we have reached a point where the choices we make over the next two to three years will determine whether Malawi stabilizes and grows or slides into prolonged stagnation. The comforting era of generous, predictable aid is fading. Donor budget support has become episodic and largely off-budget since the 2013 Cashgate scandal, and while grants spiked during COVID‑19 an

Photo by Freedom House Shifting Global Aid Dynamics and the SDGs Global foreign aid patterns have undergone notable changes. In this...

Pic by UNICEF In July of 2021, three distant relatives in Lilongwe, who did not share a household nor occupations, found themselves all...

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Malawi’s economy is still heavily aid-reliant. In the last year alone, we received at least US$1 billion in development aid through...

Malawi's elders, the bulk of our stock of decision-makers, continue to borrow for government. It is Malawi's youth who will pay for it.

Literacy counted on the ability to read, write and count is hurting Malawi's education and prospects for survival in a dynamic world.

Goevernment has a role to play. In many African countries, it is failing its citizens...and voters. Could Malawi have found a solution?

The Tonse Alliance Government is set to clean up corruption in Malawi. They may have to fight the troubles within too.

The Vision 2020 remains relevant to today's development as it did 21.5 years ago. Something needs to be done to make it work for the future.

Malawians, including this website, have been barking about Government's poor adaptation of Covid-19 measures. We can offer solutions too.

Malawi isn't doing too badly in preventing gender-based violence in the time of Covid-19. But there are still some gaps.

The variance between the rich and poor, the privileged and not, is going to be accentuated by Covid-19.

Government of Malawi is trying to bridge the gap between affluent and poor learners. The challenges in primary education are dire.

Vice President Saulos Chilima criticized the Malawi Government on food access during a lock down. Perhaps he should think his rant through.

As things take a bad turn, President Peter Mutharika is taking control of the Covid-19 crisis. His plan needs to be more comprehensive.

As Minister of disasters, Everton Chimulirenji should wish the Covid-19 pandemic were a foreign problem. It isn't.

On 28 November 2019, a whistleblower changed Malawi's fate better than the ongoing Elections Case ever will.