Malawi v.

Singapore
Malawi
Geography
Singapore
Geography
 Comparative Analysis
Points of Malawi Singapore
Comparison

Capital Lilongwe Singapore

(City-State)

Official English English

Language Malay
Mandarin
Points Malawi Singapore

Area 118,484 sq. 725.1 sq.

kms. kms.

Population 18,143,217 5,638,700

Points Malawi Singapore

Literacy Rate 62.14 94.45

Economy Agriculture Import/Export

85%-Rural s
Financial
Services
Points Malawi Singapore

Unemployme 5.43 2.3

nt Rate

Currency Kwacha Singapore

Dollar
 Political History of
Malawi
 David Livingstone
 African Lakes Company
 1889: British protectorate;
Nyasaland
 1891: British Central Africa
Protectorate
 1944: Nyasaland African Congress
 Dr. Hastings Banda
 1961: Malawi Congress Party
 1963: Banda became Prime Minister
 1964: Independence
 Renamed Malawi: one-party state
 President for Life
 Malawi
 1993 Referendum: Multi-party
democracy
 1994: First Multi-Party Elections
 Bakil Muluzi
 Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika
 Vice President Joyce Banda
 Arthur Peter Mutharika
 Singapore’s Political
History
 Stamford Raffles
 Tengku Long
 Second World War
 British re-occupation
 1946: Straits Settlement dissovle
 Separate Crown Colony
 People’s Action Party; Lee Kuan Yew
 Merger with Malaysia
 Singaporean Independence
Points Malawi Singapore
Form of Unitary Unitary
Government Presidential Dominant-
Constitutional Party
Republic Constitutional
Republic
Executive President- Prime
Five year Minister-head
term of
government
President-
Point Malawi Singapor
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Legislative Unicamera Unicamera

l l
Five years Five years