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Malawi Chambers of Commerce appeals for a better business environment
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By Nyasa Times Reporter |
February 7, 2012 · 9 Comments |
Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI) has appealed to government to provide the private sector with a better business environment.
MCCCI said a better business environment will enable private to produce more for exports and rescue Malawi from the foreign exchange unavailability.
But Industry and Trade Minister John Bande assured the industry that government is committed to seeing that the country’s forex problems come to an end.
Kaferapanjira: £fficiency
MCCCI chief executive officer Chancellor Kaferapanjira made the remarks Saturday in Blantyre when he presented a paper on The Economic Challenges facing Malawi and How to Overcome Them: An Industry Perspective during Consultative Workshop on Economic Diversification and Forex Generation.
Kaferapanjira said the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey of 2009 established that 53.4 percent of firms in Malawi use foreign inputs but only 6.4 percent export, compared with 9.7 percent in sub-Saharan Africa and 10.4 percent in low-income countries.
He said this suggests that cumulative foreign direct investment (FDI) in Malawi is of market-seeking type – a remnant of import substitution policies of the 1960s and 70s.
“Thus, it has little impact on foreign exchange generation. Resource seeking FDI is slowly coming in especially in mining sector and may help in foreign exchange generation.
He said what generates foreign exchange is efficiency-seeking FDI and that it requires a better business environment.
“Government must, therefore, address the serious obstacles to doing business raised by existing businesses. There is need for reliable and efficient infrastructure facilities to reduce costs, and ensure timely supply of exports,” said Kaferapanjira.
He called on government to make access to export incentives clear and easy.
Bande said, “As government, we are committed to ensuring that we resolve all economic challenges which we encounter as a country that is why we engage the private sector time and again in forums like these”.
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Tags: Chancellor Kaferapanjira, economy, forex, MCCCI
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Dickens, your ignorance has compelled me to comment on complete lack of knowledge. Pakuyamba MCCI is not a government institution iwe. It is owned by its members who are businesses – the companies that are suffering from bad economic policies of Ryson Thom. Therefore MCCI speaks on behalf of its members. Kaferapanjira does not speak for himself. He takes instructions from the businesses, meaning that he is just a spokesperson. Iwe una Commerce degree chabe? Ask what those people you are despising have. Ask your boss Thom how much he respects ideas coming from Chikaonda and Kaferapanjira because he knows these are assets of the nation. He actually calls these people sometimes. Iwe ndiye ndani? Go back to schools. Those people have Masters and PhDs and have insight of running busineses. You sound not to have ntchito iwe. May be you failed interviews at MCCI or Press Corporation. Viva ideas. Find out how countries develop (if you know how to do research but I doubt — not a cadet like you). Learned people will tell you that it is ideas that generate wealth. That is why anthu ukuwahetawo get much more than your entire village in a year. Wapurika? Jara pakamwapo!
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ReplyGuys my stand is very simple. Yes, we have a very serious reccession in Malawi that no one wants to admit. But let us stop pointing figures as this never solves anything insteaf it worsens the crisis. It not proper for a government institution such as MCCCI to make such negative statements. It helps no onesm but telling us that such people should we fired or forced to resign. Yes, I me4an Kaferanjira must go as he has run out of ideas. Let have the heart of we can make things happen for ourselves and remove the heart of government must do for us. I have a commerce degree and working for MCCCI can bring alot of positive and constructive ideas good for developing this country and the MCCI as institution at large.
President Bingu need s support from everyone especaially DPP executives, all MP’s NGO and even government institutions such as MCCCI and others inorder for us to recover from this recession. Everyone must remember that the most people that suffers alot are ordinary Malawians in the villages or even towns who some don’t even have any sort of income and rely on farming. So NGO’s, religious leaders, political leaders put this at your fore heart when doing things.
Please work with the president now for the betterment of poor malawian if not for yourself.Sometimes when you are in Malawi being a Malawian and having the DPP as a rulling goverment do what the DPP is doing or else argue in a diplomatic and positive way. Leave Bingu to us and that is why I have been asking the president to invite me so that I see him personally anfd share with him my views.
Sometimes a cleaner in a big loss making company gain help to have a turn around strategy or plan of action that can help this loss making company start registering profit margins. We have sent church leaders to the president before and seems not to work according to them and we have tried NGO’s and these people have achieved nothing. Sometimes the problem is not the president but the people that we have been sending to him were not good enough. Try me or us the youth we might surprise everyone when we come out of the meeting with the president Prof. Bingu.
Dickens
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ReplyWhat we need is an environment for all Malawians – DPP or not, to prosper, as we did in the first term of Thom. What is wrong in asking for a better environment? That is the role of lobbying and advocacy. If you do not know it, please keep quiet. Do not pretend to know issues by bringing in politics. We engage in politics when we have money, when we have food on the table. Let us contribute real issues, not petty politicking.
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ReplyLet us appreciate the importance knowing what is not working and what needs to be done for things. By pointing issues to be tackled, the author has not politiucised. Ndaona kuti ma politicians a DPP alowelerapo nkhaniyi koma iwowo ndiyenso osaukisisa komansao olephera and ofunika chithandizo. Ndiye wina akamawamenyera ufulu azikngokhala phee. Anthu amene akuwANYOZAWA AMAWONANA NAWE BINGU WAWOYO PAMANSO NDI PANSO. Ndiye mumzivetsa cholinga chomenyera nkhondo kuti ma bizinezi aziyenda bwino kutinso Binguyo azipeza ndala za Zero Deficit Budget. Mukumanya imwe ivo mukuviyoya? Imwe muli chindele chakufwikapo chifukwa you do not know what you don’t know. Chikaondayo si muzanu ayi. A Bwanawo amamuyitana kambirimbiri kuti awathandize maganizo koma inu lanu ndi fungo la mukwapwa ndiye simungafike even pafupi pa bwana wanuyo? Foolish idiots. Mulekeni mupasa alone. He has his own life to lead.
Kafwerapanjira wananga vichi? Akuthandiza imwe kuti mupeze makola, kom hee mulivinderedi. Ku Sukulu munaruta or muli a DDP Cadet?
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ReplyInteresting. We should join hands Malawians and work together for the betterment of our children and the future of mother Malawi. Sure we need people who are practically good and does little of talking. Marrying wife’s sister has nothing to do with profession. That’s their family issue. Life still goes on. Lets focus on issues that matter guys. Everyone has got a shortfall and that doesn’t mean is not worthy a living human being nay, let them show us their works. Encourage the hardworkers to leave us with a memory and the talkative ones to perish without leaving anything for us we do not care. Gud day Malawi
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ReplyI think Kaferapanjira has overstayed at MCCCI and has run out of ideas. He also part of the group that messed up PCC/fuel before it became part of MERA, by devising stupid formulas for fuel and engaging only one fuel transport broker who is also the biggest fuel transporter. Funny guys. And then they turn around and blame Government. The other copycat is Chikaonda. He was saying Government should sell all VXs and buy irrigation equipment but whereever he has been RBM, Press, he runs 7 vehilces including VXs zina zopitira ku zigayo. He is a farce. The other joker is Joyce Banda who cannot tell the difference between international obligations and commitments coupled with national pride from mileage seeking when she says we should not host the AU trying to confuse the minds of poor villagers. Cheap politics.
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ReplyBetter envirnment ,yes ,really important minus triavia opposition,ngo,threats.
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ReplyElectricity, water, rail link to Mozambique (Beira), better telecoms, duty free, well educated people and politics sticking out of business. That’s all you need and next thing you will have the Switzerland of Africa. Think Bingu for Malawi and not just you and your brothers pockets all the time, I know this is your last term and you need to grab as much as you can now but don’t go down in history like this…..it’s a shame to you and your family.
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ReplyChithu ichi chinalowapansi since Jimmy Koreia Mpasa left.
You can tell this country has hard working people who the country for some reason does not like.
Hard workers are enemy number 1 in Malawi.
We like talkers, like Joyce, Watipaso Muluzi,Lyson Thom,Matiyasi Chikaonda people who talk rubbish are at the top of our leadership ladder.
When hard workers like Mpasa,Gondwe to mention just two, talk, you hear irrelevant comments, comments like, you married your wife’s, sister, he can’t speak chichewa, and in the process we let good capable people who can help this country slip through our fingers.
With the state of education in this country, we could do with understudies, because there is very little acquisitions of knowledge in this country, people need to learn by being with those that know how to do it (articled clerks)
Mpasa is getting old, and has not passed on his abilities to anyone, we are losing that, and just like we have lost a lot of genuine “Sing’anga abilities” now we are left with fakes.
Soon and very soon we will be left with professors who are faker than Muthalika and Chikaonda, not to mention of enterprising people. Enterprising and hard working people should be taken into the nations wings so they can pass on their abilities.
Before you bite my head off, think seriously about what I have said.
It is not we, the informed that suffer, because some of us are in our own ways at par with Mpasa, and Gondwe but still admire them for their tenacity in trying to help Malawi.
When Mpasa was at Air Malawi, it started picking up, until he was thwarted by those that do not want to shown up by hard workers. Gondwe is now at Energy; petro is coming in until he is thwarted by the same.
Malawians are gluttons for punishment.
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