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mtumbuka
8 years ago

The author of the above article has done the best to informed malawians but to un informed malawians it will remain a trash.how i which every malawian has a chance to study macro economics. No i know why goodall can comfotably cheat us coz he knows ignorant majority will defend him on the expes of informed minority..next time will see you who are defending goodall in streets with placards demanding wage and saraly hike its a pity to demand valueless money while you reject and ingonor the root cause..yes govt has to print money but money has circulating effect which… Read more »

ibrahim makwati
ibrahim makwati
8 years ago

PLEASE MR PRESIDENT FIRE FINANCE MINISTER NOW

Nganga
Nganga
8 years ago

Kanthu uko, it is you who is dumb. You mean to say GDP cannot be cooked up? What you should know is that government is so powerful that it can do anything. It can print money. Do you know that? It can use services and goods and not pay them. Do you know that government is owing the private sector over K150 billion. This represent goods and services that were used by government and added to country’s GDB but without money involved. Where were you when Dr Ken Lipenga ( govt) borrowed money from the banks and used it as… Read more »

Kanthu Ako!
Kanthu Ako!
8 years ago
Reply to  Nganga

The article does not say Government manipulated GDP, it says Gondwe manipulated GDP, that is my argument.One person can not manipulate GDP.

So who is dumb there? Read then comment.

Nkhwatakwata
Nkhwatakwata
8 years ago

The explanation of why the figures are cooked up is not convincing, indeed the economy is going through tough times, but an economic system is like an organism, it takes time to recover. It’ s only a mechanism that recovers immediately after replacing the faulty parts. And which World Bank are you talking about? Isn’t only last week that the world bank representative in Malawi said that he was surprised that the kwacha is falling when it is sitting on more than three months of import cover? Prof. Kalua said that the kwacha was deliberately devalued so that tobacco farmers… Read more »

all-i-can-say
all-i-can-say
8 years ago

The problem with Malawians as a people is that we are too blind to realities. As long as the one who is in charge is nganya (ie from my tribe, region), it does not matter what they do, We can never see things critically. This kind of thinking encourages poor accountability and this can be seen with the quality of leadership and arrogance being exhibited all the time. In short, they know that there are other people who will never criticize their poor governance practices. As a nation, we need to build structures that ensures total transparency and accountability from… Read more »

Issa
Issa
8 years ago

kanthu ako is as useless as good-whore. Don’t tell moi you are so stupid to know that politician cook up figures? Remember the issue of Ken Lipenga?

Kanthu Ako!!
Kanthu Ako!!
8 years ago
Reply to  Issa

You are small minded, you do not think for yourself. Anything that is in a news paper is not always true. But with your small mind as shown in your language, you can not think beyond,”Zili munyuzitu ndizoona”

A single person manipulating GDP? only a fool can believe that.

Cardiac Doctor
Cardiac Doctor
8 years ago

Chitsiru chindere. Minister wopusa kwambiri. Too nepotistic idiot.

Demba
Demba
8 years ago

No comment!!

Ndoda yabwandila
Ndoda yabwandila
8 years ago

A Tumbuka siwanthu yayi ndi a
kawalala onse

Namalira
8 years ago

This reads like a Nigerian movie. Too many twists and unrelated connevtions that show the uthor doesn’t know what he is talking about

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