2025-05-16
26 分钟Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Rahul Tandon.
On this edition, is India about to drop its tariffs on US products?
And we look at the new ways airlines are making money.
I think what for us is important is to make sure that the customer has a realistic price proposition.
Well,
we offer the ticket and then it's optional whether you want to further expand it with specific seats or specific food options.
But we're going to start the programme in Africa and look at one of the poorest countries in the world.
We are talking about Malawi.
According to the World Bank, more than 70% of its population lives on less than $2.15.
So it's a country that desperately needs more investment and access to capital.
So the decision by the International Monetary Fund to terminate a $175 million loan programme,
whilst in the scale of the global economy it's not a huge amount,
is a very serious blow to its faltering economy.
We'll hear from the country's finance minister in a few minutes.
But Patrick Koyokwa is a Malawian farmer who's been telling me about the economic challenges that he and other people are now facing.
Currently, the economic landscape is not favourable for most of us.
There's been a lot of increase in prices of just general basic needs for us.
We're talking about basic needs like sugar, bread and maize, which is our staple food.
So there's been a general increase for us and most households cannot afford to have three meals