Africa-Press – Malawi. This article is in response to news circulating on social media explaining that the ministry of education in Malawi has employed about 1000 teachers and some people are celebrating the good news.
According to my opinion, this is not news worth celebrating at all but just a mockery. Is 1000 enough for primary teachers to cover the shortage of teachers countrywide? Definitely not sufficient, besides the number of teachers who graduated from college and are waiting to be employed is in double digits of thousands. Just look at this.
In the 2022 national budget there is an allocation of ZK1,994,817,600 ( 1.9948176 billion Zambian kwacha) to the recruitment of 30,000 teachers just in 2022 alone in Zambia and this number beats any SADCC country.
The only justice I am trying to share here is that Zambia elected its President in 2021 and that President has achieved his promises already. Back here in Malawi, we elected a President in 2020 but he is still busy cleaning his chair in office and watching TV.
His trays in office are still empty and he keeps giving excuses and he has not started implementing any of his campaign promises. Can you see that equation?
Differences in the economic growth rate of nations often come down to differences in inputs (factors of production) and differences in TFP—the productivity of labor and capital resources. Higher productivity promotes faster economic growth, and faster growth allows a nation to escape poverty.
The major causes of poverty in poor countries include: low economic growth, a weak agricultural sector, increased population rates and a high volume of inequality.
Some countries, like Malawi, have very high levels of debt . This means that they have to pay a lot of money in interest and repayments and there is very little left over for development projects. Some places experience environmental issues, which can prevent them from developing.
In agriculture, the productivity level is very low due to subdivided and fragmented holdings, lack of capital, use of traditional methods of cultivation, illiteracy etc. The very reason for poverty in Malawi includes this factor.
Institutions—businesses, governments and other organizations—are another important factor in explaining why some nations are richer than others. Governments play many roles in ensuring economic growth, the most prominent of which is protecting property rights.
The economic development of any country is highly dependent on good leadership. This is particularly so because the core values of a nation are directly linked to equality and equal distribution of resources. Fiscal Policy
The government can boost demand by cutting tax and increasing government spending. Lower income tax will increase disposable income and encourage consumer spending. Higher government spending will create jobs and provide an economic stimulus. Hindrances to economic growth
These obstacles are: high population growth rates, high illiteracy rates, poor infrastructure, human capital inadequacies, foreign currency gap and capital flight, unsafe water supplies, inadequate housing facilities, ethnic and religious conflict, corruption, poor governance , poor health services, primary product.
We do not have foreign exchange in Malawi. Our levels of corruption are just abnormally high and choking. Poor governance is another challenge that we have. The world’s economic leader
The United States has a relatively open economy, facilitating flexible business investment and foreign direct investment in the country. It is the world’s dominant geopolitical power and is able to maintain a large external national debt as the producer of the world’s primary reserve currency.
Hakainde Hichilema, President of Zambia (born 4 June 1962) is a Zambian businessman , farmer and politician who is the seventh and current president of Zambia since 24 August 2021.
Hakainde is not a pastor who loves making unnecessary excursions anyhow and flying abroad with bloated numbers of his envoys. He just wants to fix the economy of Zambia and the fruits have already started bearing.
After having contested five previous elections in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016, Hakainde Hichilema won the 2021 presidential election with over 59% of the vote. Now he is performing what he promised Zambians. The Zambian kwacha has beaten the South African Rand in value recently and this is the first in history this kind of scenario is happening. It’s all about a visionary leader leading Zambia today. Excellent leadership!
The background of the Zambian President is helping him a lot. He understands business and probably because of that he also understands economics. The Zambian President has put very difficult standards for the opposition to beat him in the next election. The opposition in Zambia will obviously hit the wall. A concrete wall for that matter.
And you know what? Zambians are also shocked with Hakainde again because he refuses to get a salary. He says that he wants to help mother Zambia and not to enrich himself. Imagine that !
The other surprise for the Zambians is that the Zambian President asked his relatives to stop working in government and give chance to ordinary Zambians. Isn’t that surprising? You can just imagine that.
Get back to Malawi, what do you experience? Corruption crisis, promises, lies, foreign exchange crisis, leadership crisis, blackouts crisis and the list goes on and on. We are just in a failed state but I still shamefully love mother Malawi anyway.
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