whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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... like any other real job. I can\'t set up a business on public property, nor can I practice in the security industry without training and union affiliation. These laws are there to ensure a working...

2. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
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... to their consumers. The Health Minister has declared that this is outrageous, that the private healthcare industry is profit-driven, not accessible to the poor majority and must be regulated. It is...

3. The hazard of market dominance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... so charge higher prices. Or they can simply go out of business. If all the manufacturers in a particular industry are struggling with a similar problem, there is another option: they can gang up. ...

4. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...violent conflict stemming from the failure of two men to agree on what is best for all. The Kenyan tourism industry has collapsed, tea plantations can't get their goods to market and industry is ...

5. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tely chose not to interfere. All the best minds coming out of Stanford and MIT universities flocked to the industry. Brains from around the world stormed the US like a tsunami. The genie escaped th...

6. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

... electricity consumption is to issue people with quotas. Quotas have been tried before. For the textiles industry, where importers could apply for credits to import the fabric they needed for their...

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

...oach will be. The share of middle-income nations' national revenue given over to agriculture (10%) and industry (35.5%) is strikingly different from South Africa's. Our agriculture is 3.8% a...

8. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hout touching the ground from whence it just came. Manufacturing is harder and more vulnerable. The motor industry requires an entire network of components manufacturers, distributors, marketers and...

9. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

...l change. It is clear that government has a lot to learn about supporting those who lose their jobs in one industry to reskill and transition to another. Van Schalkwyk has done his credibility no go...

10. The Miracle of Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...for knowing how to make a profit. Imagine that things were different. Perhaps the department of Trade and Industry decides that retail complex owners make too much money and rentals should be regula...

11. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
(Analysis/Analysis)

...l starry-eyed they may pull out their chequebooks and offer to invest. But what will they buy? Our energy industry is highly regulated. No competitors are invited to challenge the sterling services...

12. Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the townships, outpacing local growth and displacing South African goods. If you thought that the textiles industry was a one-off you are sadly mistaken.  Wait until Haier starts selling their R...

13. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
(Analysis/Analysis)

...and mechanical appliances. Motor spares are not included, to continue the protection of our cosseted motor industry. All the noise and stone-throwing about the Doha round of World Trade talks has be...

14. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...inessmen, with an astonishing capacity for renewal, is Rupert Murdoch. End of the Print Era The newspaper industry is in a period of trouble and strife. Editors' lock on opinion and breaking ne...

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

...shishonga was now thoroughly alarmed. One of his obligations was to eradicate corruption in the liquidation industry. He reported the matter, respectively, to a Cabinet Minister, the Auditor-General, ...

16. The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
(Analysis/Analysis)

...artery-clogging burgers while I enjoy independent travel. Tourism is the largest employer and most valuable industry in the world. And so I present the Tourism Theory of Conflict Resolution, or &ndash...

17. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

"This push for a so-called "green revolution" or "gene revolution" is being done once again under the guise of solving hunger in Africa. Chemical-intensive agriculture is, how

18. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nvert, is interviewing a panel of South African wine experts at the Cape Town Book Fair. "Is the wine industry in crisis?" he asks, mock seriously. But it is serious. Only a few days ago ...

19. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Town. While delegates from the developed world debated their response to the dramatic undermining of their industry wrought by blogging and social networking; those from the developing world expresse...

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

...nimum experience and references must be checked. Not only is the absolute number of people employed in the industry reduced, but the barrier to entry has been raised by requiring experience and talen...

21. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
(Analysis/Analysis)

..., and Catholic south. 140 million people live in this chaotic nation. And they have exactly one important industry. Oil. It is owned by the government. Whoever owns the government owns the oil. ...

22. The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e browser, aggregating information that is just too vast for one person to comprehend." Like the music industry, news has become about brand management; both of their banners and of the writers w...

23. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lourish with a combined 42.3% share of the US$ 425 billion global advertising market." The newspaper industry appears financially secure; it was Rupert Murdoch who bought MySapce, not the other...

24. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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.... In 2004 Tim O’Reilly declared the coming of Web 2.0, “the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the ru...

25. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...putation while selling contracts as their main revenue stream.  Instead it became a multi-billion Rand industry, stimulated the pre-pay market, and still is the third most-profitable source of Vo...

26. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
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...of it seemed very repetitive, as if it had simply been produced from templates.  Interviews within the industry gives the impression of a backlash against the scale of Demonstration' operatio...

27. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
(Analysis/Analysis)

...essages on their cell phones?  Who would have thought that this would stimulate a multi-billion Dollar industry? C K Prahalad, speaking in Johannesburg at a conference organised by Global Leader...

28. Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain cr...

29. "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...structure, learns, makes a few mistakes, concludes the contract and - now equipped to service a specialised industry - is set free but cut out of the loop. Round two and Widget Inc steps in, sets up, ...

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

...o realise government’s intention of halving unemployment by 2014," says Jeuschenak. Overall the industry needs to focus more attention on improving their effectiveness to ensure that a gre...

31. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...kills; bursary recipients will be required to work their fees off at two years for every one of study in an industry that develops their country Know-how and experience: share the stories of how wealt...

32. Should charitable organisations be allowed to compete with businesses?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ey would be working against their own beneficiaries.  Textiles workers are in an especially vulnerable industry and so don't need unfair competition. While the South African Institute of Cha...

33. The end of wild seafood and the myth of "free"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nt rain catchment for the lake, and overfishing and pollution are damaging its $ 400 million-a-year fishing industry.  Imagine that anyone using Lake Victoria in any way had to pay for that use,...

34. Lessons in sustainable development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e skyrocketed. The high price would have encouraged the pursuit of substitutes. The same is true of the oil industry. Oil is not held in common. It is freely traded. As the perception of the difficult...

35. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
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...tor report which can give an idea of trends, organisation effectiveness and concerns across that particular industry. We also track a Confidence Index which allows organisations to declare their faith...

36. Unlock the Value in Emerging Markets
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...ated third-party measurement to ensure transparency and results compare your investment returns relative to industry norms for specific sectors and regions Find new opportunities for investment imp...

37. Our Analysts
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...nd ratings techniques, drawing extensively on the knowledge and experience gained in the investment banking industry. He also specialises in financial management and strategic development in the corpo...

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39. Ratings Methodology
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...metrics and methodology for an entire development sub-sector.  As part of that process the majority of industry actors are identified and approached to be part of the rating process.  Organi...

40. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
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...tor report which can give an idea of trends, organisation effectiveness and concerns across that particular industry. We also track a Confidence Index which allows organisations to declare their faith...

41. Unlock the Value in Emerging Markets
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...ated third-party measurement to ensure transparency and results compare your investment returns relative to industry norms for specific sectors and regions Find new opportunities for investment imp...

42. Our Analysts
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...nd ratings techniques, drawing extensively on the knowledge and experience gained in the investment banking industry. He also specialises in financial management and strategic development in the corpo...

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... contact us. Cookies The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Whythawk cannot and does no...

44. Ratings Methodology
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...metrics and methodology for an entire development sub-sector.  As part of that process the majority of industry actors are identified and approached to be part of the rating process.  Organi...