whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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... the Editor\'s Pick on AfricanLoft. http://www.africanloft.com/whythawk-on-zimbabwe-the-war-of-informal-markets-against-central-states-a-bellwether-of-support/...

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... is rapidly catching up. If anti-capitalists want to be part of the conversation on the shape of future markets then they need to learn the language. Tramping through 1960s world-communist jargon ...

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...on thread is a demand for economic democracy. Do it some justice and blog honestly. The \"efficiency of markets\" post was crap as well, by the way....

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...he informal sector, then we must create bridges which allow legal investment back and forth across the two markets. Only then will we \"discover how to address the problems of poverty\"....

5. The hazard of market dominance
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...their troubles to each other. This invites an "understanding." Consider the bread price. Supermarkets are price makers. They have such large proportions of the average spend of the gener...

6. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
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...ere can be no action. Without action there can be no innovation. Nothing demonstrates the power of open markets more than the difference in Internet adoption rates. By the end of 2007, 71% of Amer...

7. Searching for objective measures of value
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...e, reaching a record $14.5 billion, 37% higher than Q2 2006, with particular strength across the key gold markets of Greater China, India, the Middle East and Turkey." These are all nations th...

8. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
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...yone had an incentive to use up the last of it as quickly as possible before anyone else did. Modern free markets have a solution to such shortages. The price goes up. Medieval commons had no such ...

9. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
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... competition prices are fixed artificially higher than they would otherwise be. One argument against free markets is that it leads to inequality between the rich and poor. Research indicates that th...

10. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
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... African nations can ride along on the coat-tails of these two giants by supporting their demands for open markets. If we don't we'll get left behind, and forgotten. ...

11. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
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...rnment is unleashing all this loot they need to keep in mind that investment cannot happen without private markets. The World Cup may get the foreign investors here but without obvious opportunities ...

12. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...ost of the continent. However the question conflates symptoms with causes. For starters, how do informal markets even come to be? The break-down of property rights A centralised state exists largel...

13. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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Three weeks ago Tama Muru from the BBC asked me if I thought Zimbabwe would explode. At the time I said, "No." Was I wrong? The situation three weeks ago was this: The Zimbabwe dollar

14. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
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... charlatans? It can't just be Enron. That was an abomination. It is not the norm. If it were stock markets would not be at their highest valuations around the world. Traders would be certain ...

15. Everything is coming up Capitalism
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...sial "The end of history and the last man". Capitalism, in many ways, is simply the ecology of markets. We can argue about different types of capitalism, and which is better than others, ...

16. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
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...ators around the world should be celebrating. Robert Mugabe's government has taken those against free-markets at their word. Over 1 300 business owners have been arrested across Zimbabwe. Their...

17. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
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...ly to experience catastrophic collapse if they have a large diaspora sending lots of money home. Informal markets as bellwethers Hernando de Soto, writing in "The Mystery of Capital" about...

18. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
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...stain; they go on to produce more goods than their market can buy. These goods are then exported to other markets at below cost and have the knock-on effect of displacing others from their markets. ...

19. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
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...ame? From the outside in Business owners, by and large, are extremely conservative. They look for proven markets and familiar environments in which to do business. If the market is dramatically and...

20. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
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...shared on common relationship platforms across the value chain. The remainders business is rare in formal markets and isolated to developing countries where systems are still unsophisticated. The US...

21. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
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...ople.  The poor are themselves a market.  While they are not wealthy relative to the rich, their markets are growing significantly faster than those in developed nations. Suddenly the rich w...

22. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...competition for these people and companies respond by offering competitive benefits. This happens even in markets filled with unskilled people. Chinese wages are rising dramatically as the populatio...

23. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
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...zens around the world.  They are relatively new instruments but prove something exciting about equity markets: capitalism is a bicycle.  Whether you're Muslim, Socialist or a born-again ...

24. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
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...p; Firstly, because they’re an easy target to stimulate local fears, and, secondly, because emerging markets frequently only have competitive advantages in primary industries like agriculture or...

25. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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... so in South Africa) is simply a matter of politics. In Europe and Japan, the other two important Internet markets, local governments have given protections to their historically state-owned telecommu...

26. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
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...e their future revenues. The same products that are being developed in India and China for their informal markets are just as well-received in South Africa. Chinese biscuits are growing their market...

27. 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

28. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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...en the poorest must be allowed to shape their own experiences, act as a producer and have access to global markets.” By allowing the poorest to co-create products and services you also create o...

29. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
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...ent of that brand, the creation of innovative new products and managing their distribution and uptake into markets is the subject of daily operations.  This is sophisticated work and the level of...

30. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
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...to Nestle, UBS and Credit Suisse, and has a GDP per head of US$ 54 000.  Their influence on financial markets is profound despite having only limited ability to project its power through numbers ...

31. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
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...of the most rapidly deployed technological innovations of all time:  the cell phone. A number of SMS markets work to ensure that farmers know the latest auction prices for a range of products an...

32. Bringing Capital to Small Enterprise
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...and the borrower, in aggregate, must remain obliged. And here we can borrow, intellectually, from capital markets: specifically, from financial structures in the collateralised debt obligations (CDO)...

33. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
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... return from overseas then developed nations demand local protections to exclude those products from their markets.  What is an executive to do? And how do they even make a wise investment in po...

34. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
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...e business for themselves.  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...

35. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
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...None of this is new.  The mixed messages sent by African governments regarding their policies on open markets and socialist interventions may sound like populism, but it allows the current incumb...

36. The end of wild seafood and the myth of "free"
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...ood … not free in the sense that you don’t pay for them (water out the tap, fresh fish in the markets) but the product itself turns up, well, for free. In the case of water, it falls out...

37. A revitalised UN may improve development in Africa
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At a recent international biofuels conference1 held in Cape Town a British businessman stood up and declared, “Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to be the middle-East of biofuels.” He

38. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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... collapses. Asset-price over-valuation may result from too much money chasing too few opportunities. These markets are awesome places to invest, but there are also risks and investors must be prudent....

39. Unlock the Value in Emerging Markets
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...rtunity to dramatically improve the way in which they see themselves and their strategic focus on informal markets.  Whythawk offers high-level seminars on understanding the informal economy, as ...

40. Why Use Whythawk
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...tives. Whythawk first acts to assist companies to understand the informal sector and the way in which the markets work, collective investment vehicles are used to aggregate costs, and the way in whic...

41. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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... collapses. Asset-price over-valuation may result from too much money chasing too few opportunities. These markets are awesome places to invest, but there are also risks and investors must be prudent....

42. Unlock the Value in Emerging Markets
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...rtunity to dramatically improve the way in which they see themselves and their strategic focus on informal markets.  Whythawk offers high-level seminars on understanding the informal economy, as ...

43. Why Use Whythawk
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...tives. Whythawk first acts to assist companies to understand the informal sector and the way in which the markets work, collective investment vehicles are used to aggregate costs, and the way in whic...

44. Whythawk Podcast Downloads
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Emerging markets are an exciting and volatile place in which to do business. There are opportunities, but there are also risks. Whythawk presents here a series of informal seminars and discussions on