Widespread poverty and low disposable incomes are driving many Malawians to buy cheaper, substandard goods, forcing producers to lower product quality to maintain sales, a new study by the Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has found. The bureau commissioned Ungwiro Consultants to carry out a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices study on quality culture in Malawi, […]
Consumers have bemoaned the constant lack of reversal effects on the market which authorities and the business community continue to ignore despite changes in the country’s economic fundamentals. Some of the consumers have argued that the basis for rising commodity prices on the market which was pegged on the cost of fuel and the US […]
Malawi Consumer Guard (MCG), a new consumer rights body, has denounced the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) board and management for seeking political support without regard to providing quality services to Malawians. MCG was reacting to news that ESCOM is increasing its electricity tariffs by 40 percent at a time its services still leave […]