{"id":7614,"date":"2012-03-08T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2012-03-08T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:20:43","slug":"cost-of-living-rise-further-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/08\/cost-of-living-rise-further-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living rise further in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Malawi-children-with-huts_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Malawi-children-with-huts_0-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Malawi children with huts_0\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7616\" \/><\/a>Prices of basic commodities continue to rise sharply in Malawi, despite the authorities holding on to the Malawi Kwacha against the advice of the international fiscal institutions to devalue it further.<\/p>\n<p>There are also reports of massive disparities in prices between prominent retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Basic products whose prices are on the rise include sugar, cooking oil, bread, soap, salt and maize flour, according to spot checks conducted by Capital Radio in the major cities of the country.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a loaf of bread is selling at 225 kwacha in People\u2019s shops, 250 kwacha in Kandodo and 195 kwacha in Shayan shop in Blantyre city.<\/p>\n<p>The price of one kilogram packet of Sugar is going at 300 kwacha in some retail shops while Peoples shop is selling at 220 kwacha.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a 50 kilogram bag of maize is at 4000 kwacha on the open market and 3000 kwacha in ADMARC depots.<\/p>\n<p>Several people Capital Radio spoke to in the streets on Wednesday expressed concern on the ever rise in cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is hell now because we cannot afford to buy the very basic commodities we consume on a daily basis with the same salaries that have been stagnant for a long time,\u201d said one worker.<\/p>\n<p>Another said: \u201cWhat is happening is that, the value of the money is not as it is on the market. For instance when you make a budget, you find out that u end up buying less than what you budgeted for. It\u2019s like you are throwing money in the ocean. This is affecting us so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of basic commodities continue to rise sharply in Malawi, despite the authorities holding on to the Malawi Kwacha against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[525,1725,1513,807,258],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bingu","tag-cost-of-living","tag-high","tag-kwacha","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}