The National Planning Commission of Malawi (NPC) has crowned President Lazarus Chakwera the Malawi 2063 Overall Champion. This comes as NPC is awarding
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Virtual, August 4, 2022 (SADC, ECA, NPC Malawi). The SADC National Planning Entities (NPE) Platform, in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Subregional Office for Southern Africa (ECA-SRO-SA) organized a virtual Dialogue on “The Macroeconomic Impact of Russia-Ukraine crisis on the SADC region.
The CoVID-19 pandemic has affected economies through different angles, including, among others, global financial and capital markets, global commodity trade and markets, local supply and demand of goods and services as well as local labour markets and employment.
A virtual country-learning event on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on production, markets, trade, nutrition and poverty in Southern African countries was held with focus on Malawi which was chaired by Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Lobin C. Lowe.
Amongst the observations made in the case of Malawi was that the first implication of CoVID-19 related restrictions are “disruptions in local staple markets which are likely to affect the cost of food consumed by the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the population.”