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K7bn allocated to cement subsidies: Malawi zero-aid budget

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi government has allocated MK7 billion in the zero-aid budget in order to introduce a pilot scheme in subsidising iron sheets and cement, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe told parliament on Tuesday. Gondwe revealed that Government in order to improve living conditions through improved housing in rural and urban areas, the Ministry of Lands, Urban Development […]

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DPP’s cement subsidy criticised by University of Malawi experts

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP)’s ambitious agenda to introduce new subsidies on cement and iron sheets, has been received new criticism from a quantity surveyor at the Malawi Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, Rodrick Chipunde. Chipunde, who is the Head in the Department of Land Economics and Quantity Surveying, has argued that […]

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