whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...xactly the same thing as got Europe and the US out of the mire: stability, accountability, and respect for private ownership of one\'s capital (be that labour, land or products)\" valid point, but it...

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...en a while. Here\'s a definition for you from dictionary.com: capitalism is \"an economic system based on private ownership of capital\". None of this \"the concentration of economic power in the ha...

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... it is: \"Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are mostly privately[1] owned and operated for profit...\" You\'re right that humans can\'t exist wit...

4. Possession of state assets has become an end in itself
(Analysis/Analysis)

...itals and utilities. The Swedish government, in 1984, introduced legislation that allowed the creation of privately-run, state-supported "free" schools. The schools must meet minimum requi...

5. Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
(Analysis/Analysis)

..., however, look very different from that of South Africa. A small, secluded elite live opulent live behind private security guards and high walls. A massive population of subsistence farmers and urban...

6. Everything gets tested but political ideas, they become policy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d profiling across every single aspect of economic and social activity; the health bill will shut down the private health sector; the publications bill will censor the press; the courts bill will give...

7. No way out; ducking the Eskom bullet
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e government-owned businesses create new industries or extend existing ones. The alternative is to promote private endeavour and encourage investment by businesses and corporations. All businesses re...

8. When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sident of Venezuela, took control of his country's oil production after declaring his lack of faith in private endeavour. He tore up the contracts that oil extraction companies had signed in the 1...

9. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ated by their inability to up production to take advantage of the platinum price's stellar $1,900/oz. Private hospital administrators are in a similar fix. There is plenty of demand for their se...

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

... all been entirely in the hands of individual investors. The great fortunes and great losses have been in private hands. Compare that with the products and services that governments decide are essen...

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

...ated electricity production and sales. The "partially" bit is where things came ungummed. The private companies that purchased the right to sell electricity to Californians were constrain...

12. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
(Analysis/Analysis)

The entire private hospital sector, including Netcare, Life and Medi-Clinic, is worth about R 63 billion a year. Yet this large number is only 4.6% of the total South African economy. State spendin

13. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ng from the rural Eastern Cape to Gauteng to work on a mine; or a doctor going to the UK to get a job in a private clinic. They are moving in order to best fulfil their ambition. When you sell a poc...

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

...o do about this. Any social experiments towards job creation can be tried in the state sector first where private companies don't have to be co-opted into agreement. Despite this there are more ...

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

...d import engineering skill before their goods can leave the country. That's a huge investment for any private company. In addition property law in Africa is not a very definite thing. Whole in...

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

...s lack of confidence in independent thought is Public Enterprise Minister Alec Erwin's belief that the private sector is incapable of delivering services. He has chosen to develop new broadband c...

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

...ries of land. Two other events, amongst others, give further indication to government's abhorrence of private capital. A tender being fought between state-owned Transnet and privately-owned iPay...

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

...ies of the Democratic Republic of Congo will require immense internal coordination, skills development and private business support. And even a partially built road has immediate local benefits in in...

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

...at fit each community. The Martin Bosworth who blogs on S&R is not quite the same person who blogs on Private Intelligence; we have different topic focuses and different approaches, so we pre...

20. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s hosted the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) conference. 300 regulators, fund managers, private equity groups and lobbyists got together to discuss the difficulties of managing a mo...

21. Getting Home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
(Analysis/Analysis)

...mbabwe. The transport sector consists of both state-supported parastatals, and the official and unofficial private players. The Zimbabwe government makes their subsidised fuel available, in order of...

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

...xactly the same thing as got Europe and the US out of the mire: stability, accountability, and respect for private ownership of one's capital (be that labour, land or products). Since poor countri...

23. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage B
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...e most experienced staff have been recruited by the Gauteng Health Department. Doctors are volunteers from private practice in the Sandton area and are a determined and committed group. It is their su...

24. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...the children as well as for ensuring their education and well-being. A nurse visits daily and doctors from private practice in the Durban area volunteer to be on call when needed. The local community ...

25. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

... still essentially nationalised.  Unlike football, baseball, or rugby, players are not traded between privately-owned teams.  And, unlike cycling or golf, players don’t gain tremendous...

26. Aggregation and collaboration: a guide to making money and doing good in poor nations
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e service that MxIt provides.  DatingBuzz runs the back-end that dozens of newspapers and hundreds of private companies promote as their own.  Aggregation of the costs dramatically reduces p...

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

...the organisation: i) accepts a fee from the client for the work so produced; ii) works via a government or private institution through a voucher program; or iii) works on project-based work as part of...

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

...g of loans to prospective entrepreneurs. The fund would have as its contributors a commercial bank (R60m), private investors (R20m) and national government (R20m). For their contributions each would&n...

29. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... does a wise investor make any investment decision at all?”  It starts with research.  Any private company wishing to invest has a plethora of data to call on, from ratings reports on ...

30. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... electricity, education, telecommunications, transport, and information (amongst others). Sure, there are private petrol, education, transport and telecommunications companies, but that is just icing...

31. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... that bad schools get worse and good teachers become demoralised.  These good teachers either move to private schools where they are incentivised to do well, or they perform at the same mediocre ...

32. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
(Analysis/Analysis)

.... As The Economist says of the UN, “denouncing bad behaviour by states will always be easier for a private body than for an inter-governmental agency.” And so it is significantly easier...

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

...n the lake.  Without value, it becomes a puddle.  Say what you like about the evil intentions of private water companies, at least they place a value on their product and so have a vested in...

34. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s. The X Prize revolutionised commercial space flight by offering a prize to the first team to achieve a private space trip. Well, here’s a challenge:  what would the most efficient and ...

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

...hat can be painted on, the academy is an expensive way to achieve its objectives.  The most expensive private schools in the country charge around $ 6 900 per year for tuition and produce interna...

36. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cation 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 that no South African poli...

37. "Madiba's children" failed by their government
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r of modern education.  It has failed, and failed spectacularly. It is no surprise that the number of private schools in South Africa is blossoming.  There are now 1 098 of them, and their u...

38. 11 Can I get a confidential rating before you publish?
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...ted organisation’s ability to deliver on their stated objectives within their sector. Performed on a private basis and solely for the internal use of the organisation, the assessment is a determ...

39. A sense of scale
(Analysis/Analysis)

A lot is made of occasional government and private development initiatives: how they will change communities, improve livelihoods and so on. It is useful to have a sense of proportion; some idea of ho

40. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
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...#39;s interests. Each country's scores are presented against a benchmark of popular emerging markets. Private companies require a stable, honest and healthy nation in which to do business, but t...

41. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...South African Human Rights Commission: PAIA Unit The Research and Documentation Department Postal address: Private Bag 2700 Houghton 2041 Telephone: +27 11 484-8300 Fax: +27 11 484-0582 Website: www.s...

42. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
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...#39;s interests. Each country's scores are presented against a benchmark of popular emerging markets. Private companies require a stable, honest and healthy nation in which to do business, but t...

43. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
(Static Content)

...South African Human Rights Commission: PAIA Unit The Research and Documentation Department Postal address: Private Bag 2700 Houghton 2041 Telephone: +27 11 484-8300 Fax: +27 11 484-0582 Website: www.s...