whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...e case here. It may look like western stupidity to you and hopefully your wrong, but the possiblities for growth by being connected, if in fact they can be is truly amazing. Thank you....

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...ause of the immense amount of new wealth that has entered the world\'s economy because of the astonishing growth in India and China. Walton, you are watching a miracle taking place right here, in o...

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...oesn\'t help anyone. The informal economy is not driven by individuals eking out a living. There is no growth there. It is driven by wealthy individuals who start small businesses and create employ...

4. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
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...onal electricity at whatever price was demanded. Since this period coincided with tremendous US economic growth, electricity was scarce and prices for bulk electricity reached upwards of 50 US cents ...

5. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
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...nd failed to deliver on its promise. The resulting skills shortage and illness leads to reduced economic growth, limited production capacity, and product shortages. This mismatch between outcomes a...

6. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
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...ises about the future are from our reality in South Africa, consider the following numbers: money-supply growth is 22.2%, but real economic growth is only 4.5%. It should be no surprise that inflati...

7. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
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...ight is towards the services sector which now makes up some 68% of our economy. "The reason for the growth in services is that South Africa's economy is maturing," declared Mandisi Mpah...

8. Exports and parliamentary laziness
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...nvestments. Manufacturing, at 16.3% of GDP, has a significantly larger impact on employment and economic growth than mining, at 6.5%. "So," asked Jennings, "why is it that the financi...

9. Searching for objective measures of value
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... the Middle East and Turkey." These are all nations that have experienced long periods of economic growth and their citizens are putting their money into traditional sources of value; so-calle...

10. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
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...' money cannot be created without active and successful businesses. Job creation comes from economic growth, and economic growth comes from the success of businesses. Note, though, that it does...

11. Africa, China and Investment
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...supply without increasing the value of the economy. This may lead to the short-term illusion of economic growth but the result is inflation as too much money chases too few goods. Worse for the econ...

12. Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
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...lly every other African country.  It is three times faster than South Africa’s formal economic growth. How often have you heard a politician mention this?  How often have you seen a le...

13. Black Diamonds and the trouble with statistics
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...eliable information poor investments can be made. In 2001 South Africa was suffering from weak economic growth.  High interest rates (broaching 25%) were causing business and home-owners sleepl...

14. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...h to economic prosperity. "We find little evidence of a robust positive correlation between aid and growth," write two ex-IMF economists, Raghuram Rajan, who stepped down as IMF chief econo...

15. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
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...tinctive anti-business / anti-commercial edge of Web 2.0 is that they completely neglect that real market growth comes from open-standards not open-source technology. Open-standards ensure that every...

16. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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..., even in today's world, the most able vote with their feet. Europe battles to stimulate new business growth since youngsters travel to countries with lower tax-rates and settle there. The most ab...

17. Everything is coming up Capitalism
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...eak A new book by William J. Baumol, et al, "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity", is a healthy attempt to contextualise the different forms of mark...

18. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
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... reflect the underlying value of the economy that it represents. Too little in circulation and you limit growth. Too much and you deflate the value of the currency leading to inflation. Exactly wha...

19. South Africa's two tiers
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...overty of the majority, and the expense of joining the formal sector, has led to dramatic informal sector growth. So much so that this has been used to plug holes in government's job creation str...

20. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
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...costs or cutting red tape may have no impact at all. Government policy may be artificially constraining growth so that the formal economy is not creating jobs as rapidly as the informal economy. Wh...

21. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
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...39;s factories, wash their cars, build their homes.  They are the determined labourers upon whom the growth of the rich depends. But it is a trade-off.  If the poor's wage demands were t...

22. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
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...d first."  And he laughs uproariously and contagiously. Salaam is the head of equities at Futuregrowth, a South African-based asset management firm.  The Albaraka Equity Fund, of which ...

23. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
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It is astonishing the lengths that humanitarian and development organisations will go to avoid talking about business, or to businesses. International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Juan S

24. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
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... think of themselves as poor. They are certainly not wealthy, but they're pursuing opportunities and growth at a rate almost unprecedented in human history. South Africa has one of the largest r...

25. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
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Strategies for Businesses reaching out to Informal Markets In 1997, as part of the conditions they agreed upon for getting their cellular licence, Vodacom developed a sophisticated telephone call-cent

26. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
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...quently we point out that, where the underlying framework of an economy is wrong, you cannot get economic growth, job creation and prosperity.  Cricket highlights the signal failures in economic ...

27. Rating to create a market; questions and answers
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The Whythawk team is going through an exciting period of growth; rolling out enterprise development ratings in Gauteng, and developing a new model for rating HIV/AIDS organisations, is pushing us hard

28. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
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...d skills development program – is not coming close to developing a solution to the problem. Future growth is now imperilled, not for want of money, but for want of necessary talent. It is not ...

29. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
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...ational prestige is not only measured by the weight of population but also by the economic prosperity and growth that citizens enjoy.  Countries that may be minnows when it comes to absolute numb...

30. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
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...r side are China and India; two nations with massive levels of poverty and astonishing levels of economic growth.  Neither are going to declare to their poor, "We’re sorry, global warm...

31. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
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... price fixing. In other words they are denying developing nations the very reforms that enabled economic growth and development in the most sophisticated countries; and they doom the poorest to peren...

32. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
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...uality before the law expected by developed nations.  So democracy is not a requirement for economic growth. South Africa, which does have a significant preponderance of laws that protect workers...

33. Enterprise Development and Employment: Experiences in South Africa and South Eastern Europe
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...vernment, spearheaded by the Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, is the Accelerated and Sustainable Growth Initiative - South Africa (ASGISA).  This initiative aims to eradicate unemploymen...

34. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
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...ome trade partners. A sentient species that was focused on the outside and interested in exploration and growth would have two choices: to conquer other developed planets; or to develop a trade platf...

35. How do we prepare nonprofit organisations for the long term?
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...ciency in the future – a cornerstone of capitalism; our best system for economic sustainability and growth so far. And it is these best practices, amongst others, which any ratings system shoul...

36. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
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...that.  Private companies discuss the unprecedented demand for their products and the opportunity for growth. Apple's iPod sales increased by 50% compared with the same period a year ago.&nb...

37. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
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...ous, talented locals necessary to create sufficient wealth to create the virtuous circle of stability and growth. ...

38. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
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The UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007 report has forecast overall economic growth in Africa at 5.6% in 2007 and declares that this represents a "major turnaround from previous

39. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
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...pment and so certain goals must be prioritised in the short term which will allow for sufficient economic growth to complete the list. Their goals came out (in order of priority) as: Goal 1: control...

40. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
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...in order to promote education equality. The surest sign that this is a dismal failure is the astonishing growth in the number of private schools as soon as this is implemented.  And the fact tha...

41. Ithala and The Corruption Of Development
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...he real failure here is of the thinking that proclaimed that all that was necessary to stimulate economic growth was the availability of cash. If a person has a good idea that will clearly make money...

42. A sense of scale
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...y to be entirely family-run. Family members will put up with lower pay and the business is unlikely to be growth-orientated, focusing instead on the day-to-day needs of the family. Larger businesses r...

43. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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...lease contact us. The following sections provide additional guidance and analysis: Scenario 1: High-growth emerging market Scenario 2: Nation controlled by narrow political elite Scenario ...

44. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...evelopment CC Whythawk Development CC helps developing or post-conflict societies achieve their goals of growth through the creation and implementation of innovative strategies; as well as in measuri...

45. Why Use Whythawk
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...erventions into the lives of the most at risk, there is no hope for meaningful social change and economic growth. More than a billion people live at the bottom of the pyramid, without access to the ba...

46. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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...lease contact us. The following sections provide additional guidance and analysis: Scenario 1: High-growth emerging market Scenario 2: Nation controlled by narrow political elite Scenario ...

47. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...evelopment CC Whythawk Development CC helps developing or post-conflict societies achieve their goals of growth through the creation and implementation of innovative strategies; as well as in measuri...

48. Why Use Whythawk
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...erventions into the lives of the most at risk, there is no hope for meaningful social change and economic growth. More than a billion people live at the bottom of the pyramid, without access to the ba...