whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...stion: \"if capitalism is so great ... why do 20% of the world live in absolute poverty?\" The US has 95% employment and very limited amounts of poverty with virtually no starvation. So do all dem...

2.
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...a living. There is no growth there. It is driven by wealthy individuals who start small businesses and create employment and further wealth. The sooner we learn to value wealth as a creator of wealth...

3. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ealth sector alone. There is no way that, any time soon, this crippling shortage will be met. Despite 25% unemployment in South Africa, hardly any of these are nurses. Anything that is in short sup...

4. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lidation, the creation of super-sized farms, improved farming techniques and productivity, as well as falling employment in the sector. Farms are able to produce more but, after being caught short wi...

5. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ere are significantly different to here. In Europe and the US the populations are older, more educated and unemployment levels are extremely low. This has lead to innovation and an explosion of new ...

6. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e further such large-scale investments. Manufacturing, at 16.3% of GDP, has a significantly larger impact on employment and economic growth than mining, at 6.5%. "So," asked Jennings, &quo...

7. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d completing the Comrades Marathon. The same is true of a nation. The official South African definition of unemployment is anyone aged 15 – 65 who has been actively looking for work in the past...

8. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

Public Works Minister Thoka Didiza is considering importing an Indian employment model that will guarantee every household the right to 100 days of paid work per year. Didiza, as a representative of

9. Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n the earlier settlement agreement. The court found that he was. His suspension had denied him the dignity of employment, and was akin to a form of discrimination. But since the PDA set a ceiling on c...

10. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

...arket, recognised by the state, the informal, or parallel, market starts to grow. There are base levels of unemployment and informality in even the most popular and sophisticated states. It acts as ...

11. Getting Home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
(Analysis/Analysis)

...$50 000 late at night. Then they have to get up early to repeat the performance to get back to work. With unemployment at 80% no-one with a job can afford to give it up. There are, however, winners...

12. Start your business in Johannesburg but hire your advisor in Cape Town
(Analysis/Analysis)

Small business development is a crucial part of government's strategy to reduce unemployment and increase black economic empowerment. Whythawk has recently completed rating individual small busine

13. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...re is little room for more than one shirt, one pair of pants and one desperately shiny pair of shoes.  Unemployment is widespread.  These are the relatively destitute poor. The relationship ...

14. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...to see new laws to protect these enacted. Both at home and abroad. Minimum wage laws, minimum conditions of employment. Most seriously, Democrats attempted to sneak into the recent bill about fundi...

15. Have you paid your car guard today?
(Analysis/Analysis)

Moral outrage is bigotry with a halo.  And the moral citizens of our cities are whiffling about the high-streets breathing fire and brimstone, “Something! must be done!”  And don

16. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ases." Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete went even further into the mire: "The problem of youth unemployment is exacerbated by the global demographic trend which has seen the size of youth...

17. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
(Analysis/Analysis)

"The graduate unemployment rate stands at 10.5% for 2005 - a rate higher than most national unemployment rates in comparable middle-income countries," declares Haroon Bhorat, director of the

18. A story of an African Orphan
(Analysis/Analysis)

... just too many children who have been affected by AIDS. AIDS has come to South Africa on the back of high unemployment and poverty levels. The double effect on children is devastating. Generally, th...

19. Western Cape economic development support agencies lack the capacity to halve unemployment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sations collectively managed to create approximately 8 200 jobs in the past 12 months. The average level of unemployment in the Western Cape is about 26% and, according to research conducted by the Hu...

20. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
(Analysis/Analysis)

...significant preponderance of laws that protect workers rights and democracy, has struggled with an official unemployment rate of 25.6% which has remained fairly consistent for more than a decade.&nbsp...

21. Enterprise Development and Employment: Experiences in South Africa and South Eastern Europe
(Analysis/Analysis)

Unemployment is currently at 26% according to the official statistical body in South Africa, Statistics South Africa.  Other unofficial broader measurements place the unemployment rate closer to

22. The Tyranny of Red Lights
(Analysis/Analysis)

... so law abiding it leads to their harm. And South Africa has a problem.  We have lots of laws and 40% unemployment.  There are plenty of red lights preventing economic development with limi...

23. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ome head north to Europe, some south to South Africa and – in countries not their own – they seek employment and opportunities denied them at home.  Some have degrees or technical ski...

24. "Madiba's children" failed by their government
(Analysis/Analysis)

...the Department of Education to adopt the same mechanisms of the private sector and give our children hope for employment and success.     ...

25. Ithala and The Corruption Of Development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s or finance?  If you're the government of a failing economy with little business activity and 35% unemployment then the answer must surely be finance.  This short-sighted approach can s...

26. A sense of scale
(Analysis/Analysis)

...clear that Government needs to work with the private sector to create opportunities. Clearly, though - with unemployment figures remaining static over the past 10 years - this is not happening.  ...

27. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
(Static Content)

... growing, middle-class as wealth is spread out and away from the political class towards the new merchant and employment class. Wealth creation amongst a socially and economically mobile lower class...

28. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...ion Close Corporations Act 69 of 1984 Income Tax Act 95 of 1967 Skills Development Levies Act No. 9 of 1999 Unemployment Contributions Act No. 4 of 2002 Unemployment Insurance Act No. 63 of 2001 Value...

29. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
(Static Content)

... growing, middle-class as wealth is spread out and away from the political class towards the new merchant and employment class. Wealth creation amongst a socially and economically mobile lower class...

30. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
(Static Content)

...ion Close Corporations Act 69 of 1984 Income Tax Act 95 of 1967 Skills Development Levies Act No. 9 of 1999 Unemployment Contributions Act No. 4 of 2002 Unemployment Insurance Act No. 63 of 2001 Value...