I would like to first congratulate President Joyce Banda for making her maiden speech at the 67th United Nations General assembly whose theme is “Bringing about adjustments and settlements of international disputes or situations by peaceful means.” It was an eloquent speech in which she has articulated well the socio-economic challenges which are faced in developing […]
The United Nations Women’s lobby group is poised to set – up a secretariat in Malawi to help fast tracking the implementation of the millennium development goal on promoting gender equality and empowerment of women. Principal Secretary for Gender, Child and Social Welfare, Dr. Mary Shawa made the disclosure on Wednesday after a UN board […]
Experts have disagreed with Malawi government figures that put the country’s unemployment rate at 3 percent margin. In a published report in Business Times midweek publication, the country’s medium term development strategy, the Malawi Growth Development Strategy (MDGS II) put Malawi among the fastest developing countries in the world with low unemployment levels like Singapore, Austria, Switzerland, […]
Global experts on environment and development have realized that agriculture can be a critical tool to solve problems associated with climate change and weather variability in many counties. This realization comes in the wake that the world population will grow from current 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050 with most of the increase occurring […]