whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...ving towards greater formality - formal firms are more productive than informal firms and formality brings revenue to Government. There\'s a huge literature on this....

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Brilliantly stated. I couldn\'t agree more, the big revenue streams of the future will be dominated by the mobile platform. It\'s just taking the big (US) web companies a while to realize that.

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

...the economy takes a dive and puts pressure on salaries. There will be less tax, and capital-gains-derived revenues, to pay for all these new promises. Even worse is that, as government nationalises ...

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

...a ... and acquiesced. It is difficult arguing that Chavez' nationalisation was a bad thing when daily revenues have risen from $50 million in 2003, to $190 million in 2007. Yet it has been an ap...

5. Taxing the Future, Confusing the Present
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ayers, "Please keep paying." The introduction of a presumptive turnover tax for businesses with revenues less than R 1 million a year is not a simplification. The 7.5% tax on turnover for ...

6. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r Brands was fined R 98.8 million for collusion in fixing the price of bread. This was only 5.7% of their revenue; other manufacturers – who didn't fez up in time - face fines of 10% of tur...

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

...y imagine, the more conservative their approach will be. The share of middle-income nations' national revenue given over to agriculture (10%) and industry (35.5%) is strikingly different from Sou...

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

...t has made so much money off formal-sector privately-employed citizens that this may be their sole idea of revenue. But they can't tax foreigners (except tangentially through the extortionate rat...

9. The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nal access to their channels in magazines, newspapers, radio and television and a share in the advertising revenue that goes with it. The Internet will only get you so far. Future musicians, journali...

10. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ood (and bad) articles circulate the globe, and both media companies and journalists lose out from reduced revenue and brand recognition. Ill-advised use can also get everyone into trouble. Google &...

11. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n anything else, which has allowed Google to leap away from Yahoo.  Google also cleverly shares their revenue with websites who host their ad-streams. And it is this shared revenue model that has...

12. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
(Analysis/Analysis)

...pendence." While Wikia, another component of Wikimedia, hosts advertising and makes a small amount of revenue from Google Adverts, Wikipedia will remain advert free.  "Every other week ...

13. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
(Analysis/Analysis)

...oor or about the integrity of their products. And the end result will be that they will lose their future revenues. The same products that are being developed in India and China for their informal m...

14. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Vodacom expected it to be a marketing give-away; to build reputation while selling contracts as their main revenue stream.  Instead it became a multi-billion Rand industry, stimulated the pre-pay...

15. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...en from the list of Umsobomvu beneficiaries.  Originally Demonstration told us that only 50% of their revenue came from vouchers.  Information from other sources indicates otherwise and we h...

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

... Policies & Procedures - Child Orientation Process: BBB Financial Environment - Revenue distribution: CCC Financial Environment - Financial effectiveness / cost e...

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

...stems: AA Policies & Procedures - Child Orientation Process: AAA Financial Environment - Revenue distribution: BBB Financial Environment - Financial effectiveness / cost effic...

18. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
(Analysis/Analysis)

...er day, supply 2 340 million tons of animal feed per day back to the farmers, and earn $ 840 m annually in revenue with $ 30 m exported.  Clearly there is wealth at the bottom of the pyramid, bot...

19. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Kazaa and Skype, Joost promises “infinite choice, and TV that is truly interactive.”  The revenue sharing model is attractive to media producers, and gives them the opportunity to rea...

20. Should charitable organisations be allowed to compete with businesses?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ition. While the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) may disagree, the South African Revenue Service has made the correct decision in deciding to tax these profits.  In orde...

21. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
(Analysis/Analysis)

...And too much of that growth has been as a result of volatile commodities, like oil, that raise significant revenue which does little for job creation, and is unevenly distributed. While international...

22. Enterprise - Ratings and Scorecard overview
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...penditure on specific Income Statement line items and expresses these in terms of the entity’s total revenue or total/line-item expenditure.  Of particular focus are the remuneration and sa...

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

...pond either by moving their children to private schools and so result in further hardship as the amount of revenue drops; or the schools will go private. Either way the objective of offering disadvan...

24. Guide To Volunteering
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...your time to a charity that is fiscally efficient. Or maybe you see an opportunity to help a charity whose revenue hasn't grown as quickly as the need for its programs and thus could really use an...

25. Guide to Donating
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...as its short-term day-to-day spending practices. Therefore, seek out charities that are able to grow their revenue at least at the rate of inflation, that continue to invest in their programs and that...