The four-year International Monetary Fund (IMF) $175 million (about K306 billion) Extended Credit Facility (ECF) which sought to restore macroeconomic stability in the country has been suspended.

Bungwe la IMF silipitilizanso kuthandiza boma la Malawi ndi ngongole yokonzera chuma chake (Extended Credit Facility ECF), kamba ka mavuto omwe asokoneza ngongoleyi.

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We’re excited to welcome Prof. Bengt G. Karlsson for a keynote talk as part of the Crops-in-Crisis Workshop at KU Leuven, supported by the Global Minds Program! Organized by myself and Tanja Hendriks Please register for livestream or in-person: icts.kuleuven.be/apps/onebutton…

Those who downplay the suspension of Malawi's IMF programme are missing the real issue. Extensive borrowing — much of it used for consumption rather than infrastructure and other investment— has left Malawi with an unsustainable debt burden. The country has already fallen into

Join us - online or in person - next week for the JSAS Special Issue Launch on #BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawi state, in Zomba University of Malawi (UNIMA). Registration details below!

In this article, Calum Fisher explores #Malawian MPs’ narratives of how they got involved in politics. Motivated by a desire to serve their ‘home’ communities, they often come to experience themselves as failures in the process representing constituents tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article!!! Sam Farrell challenges depictions of distribution by electoral candidates in Malawi as #votebuying or #clientelism. Instead, they formed the moral grounds of #democratic relationships with constituents in a context of increasing inequality tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This Saturday, 24th May 2025, we are launching the Political Science Association's "Malawi Journal of Politics & Public Affairs". Venue is Wadonda Lecture Theatre at University of Malawi (UNIMA) Here is zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/87544805949?…

Farrell & Tanja Hendriks argue for the need to move ‘#BeyondFailure’ to understand how the #Malawi #state is actually produced, enacted and experienced in practice.They suggest the concept of the #heart (#mtima) offers an alternative analytic to failure. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In their afterword Gerhard Anders and Happy Kayuni reflect on the contributions of looking at the #heart of the #Malawi #state as an #idea and in #practice. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Holding a paper copy feels so surreal! Join us this Tuesday afternoon University of Malawi (UNIMA) for the launch of this Journal of Southern African Studies Special Issue on #BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawi #state

We are ready for the launch of the Journal of Southern African Studies Special Issue on #BeyondFailure, exploring the #mtima of the #Malawi #state at University of Malawi (UNIMA) tomorrow! Join us between 14.00 - 17.00 in the Economics Cafeteria! Happy Kayuni Sara Elisa Fischer, PhD, @saraefischer.bsky.social Sociale Wetenschappen - Social Sciences KU Leuven Centre for Social Research (CSR), UNIMA Gerhard Anders