Economist Laments Private Sector’s Greed
BY BLAIR MHONE Betchani Tchereni, a well-known economist, has condemned what he calls "misused capitalism," in which the private sector manipulates prices on the local market by speculating on impending commodity shortages to make huge profit at the expense of regular Malawians. Tchereni, an Associate Professor of Economics at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS), wrote on...