Malawi

The Mozambique-Malawi Joint Defence and Security Commission has met in Lilongwe to discuss ways of exercising effective control over the two countries' shared border. Not only is... 2008-06-26

President Bingu wa Mutharika is rapidly becoming a 'lame duck´president as tensions between his supporters and those of former president Bakili Muluzi impede efforts to pass legislation.... 2007-03-27

We still forecast a significant recovery in GDP growth this year due mostly to a much improved grain harvest. Household consumption is by far the most important component of demand... 2006-09-04

Malawi's heavy foreign debt burden is a legacy of past mismanagement and corruption, and there is little to show for the amounts borrowed in terms of social or physical infrastructure.... 2006-09-01

Malawi's politics are characterised by endless feuds 'party hopping' and the use of arrest, dismissal and court summons as tools of political intimidation. This has left much of the... 2006-09-01

The availability of timely data is unsatisfactory, but certain key trends are possible to discern. Inflation remains well above the regional average (excluding Zimbabwe), reflecting... 2006-06-13

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, and also one of the most heavily indebted to foreign creditors. For many years successive governments have performed unevenly... 2006-06-12

Real GDP growth depends largely on agriculture, which explains our bullish outlook for 2006. It is impossible to predict what next year will bring in terms of weather but, assuming... 2006-04-19

Years of poor economic management, extensive corruption (Transparency International ranked Malawi the 97th most corrupt country out of 158 covered in its most recent annual survey)... 2006-04-07

A new full IMF programme is likely, which has the potential to lead to deep debt relief next year.