whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...and decide whether to buy it is a lot more straightforward than exporting it to a country where you have no local representation. Finding customers to buy your products in a foreign land takes a lot ...

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

"Wits University, in Johannesburg, invited student representation onto the University Board. Meetings that used to take four hours now take two days," says Judge Mervyn King, Chair of the G

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

...icular, regularly make unrealistic loan applications with limited hope of success. Both regions make similar loan representations (58% vs 59% of all clients) but only 15% in the Western Cape and 11% i...

4. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y Mbeki follows his own mind and not that of the party. The power-elites are concerned about the president taking representation away from the party and unto himself.  So what the power-elites wa...

5. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
(Analysis/Analysis)

... it a bit like uranium 235. Far from sending money, or demanding a few democratic institutions as sops to “representation” foreign states interested in developing nascent states should ac...

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

...ty rights expected in the developed world.  The Chinese - as a people - don't have any of the democratic representation or equality before the law expected by developed nations.  So demo...

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

...Owned by the commercial bank, it would have the expertise to deliver on its mandate but its board would allow for representation by all CLN holders (while limiting their administrative input). The fi...

8. Rating Copyright and Terms of Use
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...cy of any such information. As a result, the information in this report is provided "as is" without any representation or warranty of any kind. A Whythawk rating is an opinion as to the cred...

9. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

... likelihood is that the wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a visible minority which has little political representation. Its existence is likely to fuel popular resentment. There are two appr...

10. Terms of Use
(Static Content)

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11. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

... likelihood is that the wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a visible minority which has little political representation. Its existence is likely to fuel popular resentment. There are two appr...

12. Terms of Use
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...Whythawk. Such linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. Whythawk makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or functioning of any such link. That...