3. Now that Malawi’s currency has been devalued, what do you think the economic consequences will be? Is this good for the economy?

When the former World Bank economist Bingu wa Mutharika became president of the East African nation of Malawi in 2004, it seemed to be the beginning of a new age for one of the world’s poorest countries. In landlocked Malawi, most of the population subsists on less than a dollar a day.
Mutharika was their champion. He introduced a subsidy program for fertilizer to help poor farmers and gave them seeds. Agricultural output expanded, and the economy boomed, growing by 7 percent per year between 2005 and 2010. International donors loved him, and aid money started to pour in from the United Kingdom and the United States. By 2011, foreign aid was accounting for more than half of Malawi’s annual budget.