Some Development Issues and Debates

Greenwell Matchaya, PhD In the previous article titled   Principles of Engagement for a Successful Alliance Formation available both on nyasatimes and mfumusaka’s blog ( http://mfumusaka.blogspot.com/2018/11/principles-of-engagement-for-successful.html ) we tackled the issue of requirements for healthy discussions leading to alliances and covered issues of objectivity, importance of facts, good faith, lawfulness, consensus, certainty, roles and responsibilities, formalities inter alia .   This article seeks to take it from the previous discussion and tackle few issues on why an alliance may be important and under what circumstances may it be meaningful(less). This is important to ensure alliances are not merely ceremonial, but serve a noble purpose. As with the previous one, this article is not meant to discourage or encourage any political party anywhere to go into, or withdraw from any potential political formation, alliance, party or grouping, rather, it seeks...

Greenwell Matchaya, PhD Firstly, this article is not meant to discourage or encourage any political party anywhere to go into, or withdraw from any political formation, alliance, party or grouping, rather, it seeks to contribute to the thought process on political formations in general. The article is academic in nature, and some of the principles are vicarious knowledge from fields of economics and law.   Secondly, the author does not claim that this is the only way of thinking on this issue, but rather considers this as a possible point of debate.  Having dealt with the context, it is worth noting that while there are some advances in areas of civil liberties, it is common cause that Malawi continues to grapple with untold poverty characterized by many a person unable to fend for himself, widespread starvation, malnourishment, economic stagnation, depressive interest rates, and lamentable low incomes per person, among others. Of course there are efforts to r...