However, while they can be subject to continuous checks and improvements as well as better used, we cannot dispose of them, as they are especially useful for a disciplined organisation of the evaluations on which policy measures are based.4 This said, our analyses indicate that the effects of energy prices – the most important exogenous variables, whose changes are inferred from the quotes of futures contracts – explain, directly and indirectly (i.e.
I would like to challenge banks in Malawi to devise deliberate policies aimed at improving access to credit by our private sector, especially Malawians, as this is the only way Malawi can sustain its current level of social and economic development.