Instead of subsidizing consumption through the AIP initiative, if we had adopted the same model for infrastructure development, allocating no less than MK150bn a year for more than 10 years, we could have, by now, finished a dual carriage M1 road from Mzuzu to Blantyre. Or is my arithmetic wrong? Alternatively, in the health sector, we could have built all the clinics mentioned in Mw2063. Or indeed all the schools. But we think of votes instead of development… Sad.
The influx of second hand cars for the last 5 years or so should, ideally, have meant a higher demand for driving school services. Surprisingly, that has not been the case…
#BuyingLicences
The master of the doctrine of strategic unpredictability and personalistic diplomacy. He has got analysts analyzing a disruptive, personality-driven phenomenon that deliberately eschews consistency, weaponizes ambiguity, and fuses domestic politics with foreign affairs in an opaque manner. Analysts are left navigating a landscape where the traditional roadmap is obsolete, forcing them to construct new frameworks to explain Donald Trump and his policy shifts. From global tariffs, Gaza, Greenland, Latin America, NATO, Syria, Nigeria, etc. They have work to do!
In #Malawi, the level of efforts and volumes of phone calls to make money falls miserably short and is seriously disproportionate to the actual level of improvement in people’s lives, wealth created and general happiness. So much efforts are fruitless, we spend much on useless stuff, invest less or think poorly. Maybe both.
When Najib Razak lost elections in Malaysia in 2018, as an anti corruption drive, police raided his house and came out with 240 million worth of luxury goods. There were 284 boxes containing his wife’s handbags and 72 bags containing cash, jewelry and designer watches. #DirtyMoney #Lessons