Lizulu Market in Lilongwe City. Pic by Malawi Travel If you want to understand Malawi’s economy, don’t start with a spreadsheet. Start at Lizulu at dawn, when traders with the common sense of seasoned macroeconomists lay out tomatoes, dried fish, cassava, and second‑hand shirts, hedging against price volatility by stocking what people actually eat and wear. Here, in the hum and barter of everyday life, are Malawi’s territorial markets —localized systems that connect producers

Pic by Chikondi/UNICEF Malawi’s education system is not merely lagging. It is structurally unprepared for an era in which artificial intelligence and digital tools are redefining productivity, skills formation, and national competitiveness. The consequences are visible in chronic overcrowding, low completion and transition rates, fragile infrastructure, and uneven teacher capacity—conditions that make adaptive learning at scale elusive and undermine the country’s long-term de

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

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