whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...rd guards offer a service. The outrage over hawkers should be obvious: without control, hawkers cost jobs and damage the economy. They pay R0.00 to set up on a pavement outside a legitimate retail ...

2.
(Comments)

...opment speak\". Countries develop not through words but actions. Solving real problems, creating real jobs is just too hard, so they all default to: An enabling environment must be created to allow ...

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

... the poor as rising prices stimulate renewed agricultural investment and, with it, large numbers of new jobs. If subsidies are required then they should be short-term and targeted directly at the poo...

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

...ca's. Our agriculture is 3.8% and industry is 32%. Both sectors are in rapid decline, losing both jobs and investment. The flight is towards the services sector which now makes up some 68% of o...

5. Simba the Saviour?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...just threaten violence, call for election boycotts and urge a hungry population to stay away from their jobs. Like everyone else in Zimbabwe, and possibly the world, I am extremely excited about the ...

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

...ronmental 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 credibili...

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

...e ANC succession debate has been over this seeming contradiction. Either capitalism doesn't create jobs, or businesses are being selfish and refusing to create them, goes the argument. Pointless...

8. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...efit from the scheme. A company contracted to refurbish a road will, of necessity, hire people. Those jobs will be filled. Under this scheme they would have to make way for those who are participat...

9. The Miracle of Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ey offer goods from their front-doors. Street traders are appearing on the thoroughfares. Hundreds of jobs have been created. Billions of rand has been added to property values. The old man with h...

10. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ich would have spent their cash reserves on maintenance and improvement of their capacity (creating new jobs along the way) don't. This leads to product shortages and further producer inflation a...

11. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
(Analysis/Analysis)

... Now imagine if South Africa posed a "threat" in the way that China does, soaking up low-wage jobs and exporting cheap textiles and toys. Perhaps some EU minister would suggest a general tr...

12. The spectre of loyalty over ability
(Analysis/Analysis)

...and engineers from abroad. Without a commitment to independent private thought and action there are no jobs available for anyone who wants more from life than to be a mere robot. Mbeki is the most o...

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

...The main reason cited for this is that it protects the local industry from unfair competition and saves jobs. We can argue about this where the imports compete with goods manufactured here, but it is...

14. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ke this: "Why do the poor hate charity? Because it makes the donors look and feel good, it gives jobs to otherwise unemployable aid workers, it lends credibility to corrupt governments, but doe...

15. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
(Analysis/Analysis)

... all. If it were easier to get work permits to get in, then more would be happier to go home in-between jobs. The same goes for switching costs. If it is really difficult to leave then, once a person ...

16. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...will have to raise additional taxes from other businesses. Government's "need" to create jobs will see millions of rands taken from people who have the best ability to turn it to produc...

17. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...f the most productive farmland in the world 80% of the population depends on the informal sector for jobs and support Operation Murambatsvina shut down most of the informal sector, left 700 000 ...

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

... Government policy may be artificially constraining growth so that the formal economy is not creating jobs as rapidly as the informal economy. When an uncoordinated informal economy is able to outg...

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

...ed cultural mixing and tourism which improves international knowledge and relations as well as creating jobs for hundreds of millions of people. The engines are not totally efficient and release tons ...

20. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nies will come here and rescue you from poverty. When they arrive you better be ready for one of those jobs in our factories." Consider the impact. The poor have become complicit in the lie of...

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

...nt programs, the opportunity to improve their effectiveness in order to create more businesses and more jobs," says Jeuschenak. The full report is available to subscribers at http://www.whythawk....

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

...main unemployed than be exploited by capitalist corporations who only seek profits." Striking for jobs; marching for poverty It is the South African union movement who came up with a unique me...

23. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hen it costs cents then the poor can be healthy too.  When you protect an incumbent because of the jobs that may be lost they have no incentive to improve and so prices remain high. The victory f...

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

... poverty in any developing country is that labour, which is mobile, moves from areas where there are no jobs to other areas where there are still no jobs but there are lots of other people as well.&nb...

25. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ealth and stability produced the Internet, not the other way round.  China has created 300 million jobs in a decade with a government completely opposed to the Internet.  Little notebook com...

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

...owing statement:  "There is no better forum for a practically oriented deliberation on decent jobs in Africa than a meeting at which the major participants are government representatives and...

27. Leveraging your good name; the power of a positive credit rating
(Analysis/Analysis)

... being told, “You have no credit history.  We cannot lend anything to you.” Just like jobs, how do you gain experience if no-one will hire you? Banks make use of credit ratings to e...

28. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Unskilled workers may be able to shut down a plant – but all they achieve is destroying their own jobs.   Talent has always been critical to businesses.  Talent used to be essential o...

29. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...he distribution of wealth, not its creation.  Strikes were as crippling as taxes.  Industrial jobs were going to lower-cost countries and academic brains to America.” This was about 1...

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

...cate that the fault lies within the education system rather than with employers simply failing to offer jobs.  The educational institutions responsible for training people are producing graduates...

31. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e. When Starbucks developed Seattle coffee culture it spread throughout the world creating millions of jobs both directly and peripherally in the supply chain.  In cities where no such services ...

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

...Programme (EPWP) launched by the South African government in 2004. With a mandate to create one million jobs in five years, it has created 250 000 temporary jobs for unskilled workers who will, at the...

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

...the Western Cape, South Africa. Rated organisations 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% a...

34. World Cup 2010 asks for big sacrifices from the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

... A Pretoria University study puts it at R 5 billion, 0.28% to GDP and the creation of 20 000 short-term jobs. Grant Thornton, in a report issued as part of the official government application to host...

35. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n. The effects of poverty are clear to everyone:  little money, little education, poor health, no jobs, and poor safety and security.  The causes of these are less obvious since they are in...

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

...nomic growth until people are told - in so many words - that the government cannot and will not provide jobs.  That it will create opportunities to gain skills but that the onus is on individuals...

37. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

... interesting than their own schools, so they abandon them.  Polish teachers migrate towards better jobs in New York.  Sensing that things are not going well in Poland, the aliens offer cheap...

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

...nment asks for participation.  The public is asked to comment on ideas for job creation, to create jobs by starting businesses, to take on risk.  When anyone questions prevailing legislation...

39. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lves.  If they did, they’d already be doing so. Continuing integration of markets will make jobs around the world more subject to competitive pressures. "As trade expands and technolo...

40. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s the iPod; in which case – on its own – it will result in the creation of thousands of new jobs simply to produce it. Consider now the iPhone’s impact on other phone manufacturers....

41. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...chasing $ 23 billion of goods a year from China, assisted 460 000 Chinese a year out of poverty through jobs created in factories dedicated to supplying Walmart. He cites the following:  “...

42. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...h more interesting than their own schools, so they abandon them. Polish teachers migrate towards better jobs in New York. Sensing that things are not going well in Poland, the aliens offer cheap loans...

43. A sense of scale
(Analysis/Analysis)

... Since only the most talented and creative start businesses, they must choose between the few available jobs, migrating to other (less didactic) countries, or going through the nightmare of starting a...