whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
(Analysis/Analysis)

...h an example. It seemed like a reasonable set of assumptions. Most people don’t default on their loans, no matter how onerous they may be. Insurance works on a similar principle; I don’...

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

...portunities for corruption as insiders trade contacts and cash for larger allocations. Money supply and loans are not controlled by quotas. You pay interest. When the Reserve Bank feels that people...

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

...ntervention." The average business plan produced by an enterprise development consultant calls for loans of R 165 000, while banks prefer to finance an average of R 233 000 per business.  &...

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

...pite the fact that commercial banks in South Africa have committed about $ 700 million to small business loans, there are still requirements on track-record to assess creditworthiness. Similarly, the ...

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

... better jobs in New York.  Sensing that things are not going well in Poland, the aliens offer cheap loans to the government – so much money that they don’t collect taxes anymore.&nbsp...

6. Bringing Capital to Small Enterprise
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

... fund of R100m, administered by a special purpose vehicle (SPV), that has as its purpose the granting of loans to prospective entrepreneurs. The fund would have as its contributors a commercial bank (...

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

...hize allocates development funds to Ithala.   In addition to receiving R13-million in state-funded loans to buy a farm outside Pietermaritzburg, May also applied for Ithala loans for other enter...

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

...owards better jobs in New York. Sensing that things are not going well in Poland, the aliens offer cheap loans to the government – so much money that they don’t collect taxes anymore. A gr...