{"id":10490,"date":"2015-10-19T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=10490"},"modified":"2015-10-19T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T09:43:11","slug":"fmb-gives-towards-ecama-lake-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/10\/19\/fmb-gives-towards-ecama-lake-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"FMB gives towards Ecama lake meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FMB bank says deliberations at the forthcoming Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) lakeshore conference could help Malawi achieve sustainable economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s head of marketing and corporate social relations Sylvia Nankwenya-Mataka said the theme for this year\u2019s Ecama conference was relevant in supporting efforts to improve the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theme of the meeting \u2013 Agricultural Transformation and Value Chain Development for Sustainable Economic Growth \u2013 is an ideal one at this moment in our country. When we do well in agriculture, we will obviously reap a better economy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mataka was speaking when FMB presented a cheque of K500,000 to Ecama at an event held in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forum will bring together economic and finance experts to brainstorm on the betterment of the Malawi economy, hence we felt that we should contribute something towards the cause,\u201d said Nankwenya-Mataka.<\/p>\n<p>Ecama president Henry Kachaje hailed FMB for its contribution, saying the meeting could only be successful with support from all relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe focus on different themes that would add value to the Malawi economy and this year we have decided to dwell on agriculture, which continues to be the back-bone of the country\u2019s economy,\u201d said Kachaje.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FMB bank says deliberations at the forthcoming Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) lakeshore conference could help Malawi achieve sustainable economic growth. The bank\u2019s head of marketing and corporate social relations Sylvia Nankwenya-Mataka said the theme for this year\u2019s Ecama conference was relevant in supporting efforts to improve the economy. \u201cThe theme of the meeting \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10495,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions\/10495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}