A Guide to Self-Employment: A Malawian perspective. By Milward Tobias
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About the author
Milward Tobias is economist. He is a researcher and consultant.
He received training at Moi University (Kenya) and University
of Malawi (Chancellor College). He has also participated in
short courses including a training in Comparative Regional
Integration which he undertook at the University of Bonn in
Germany; training in Field Research which was jointly offered
by Boston University (USA), Moi University and Great Lakes
University of Kenya; and a training in Leadership which was
facilitated by the British Council among several short courses.
He is Director for the Center for Research and Consultancy,
a Think Tank focusing on economic policy. Prior to his
establishing the Think Tank, he served as Economic Affairs
Special Assistant to the Vice President of the Republic of
Malawi from June 2014 to May 2019. Before that role, he
served as Program Manager at Malawi Economic Justice
Network, Project Officer at Institute for Policy Interaction and
Sales Officer at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation.
Acknowledgements
On 26th November 2020, Dr. Asante Lucy Mtenje reacted
to my whatsapp status and said, ‘amwene consider writing
a book on this in the near future’. She was reacting to a
message I posted which read, ‘This is the formula to get rich:
The value of your goods and services which some people
can source from you must be higher than the value of goods
and services which you need from other people’. Of course in
short, the message was that earnings must exceed expenses.
I sincerely thank her for the motivating remarks and her belief
in my capability.
In the course of writing the book, I kept posting hints about its
contents through my whatsapp status. A number of friends
in my contacts gave very encouraging feedback which
was further motivation. I am grateful to all of them. With their
consent, I have compiled the comments at the back cover
of the book.
Professor Chinyamata Chipeta is my God-given mentor and
for that reason I am ever indebted to him. Special thanks to
Dr. Thomas Chataghalala Munthali for accepting to author
the foreword. Dr. Munthali has been my career pillar through
and through. Thanks to Beyard Ndovi for reviewing the
draft text and making invaluable comments. Beyard was a
third year economics student at Chancellor College at the
time of writing this book. Gift Sitima has always been handy
whenever I need his design services. I am grateful to him.
Finally, I thank my niece and great friend, Grace Sinkileya,
for being the driving force behind my daily battles most of
which I have fought successfully.
A guide to self-employment: A Malawian perspective
Dedication
To my niece, Grace Sinkileya. To my mother and late father
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