whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...ic health sector alone. There is no way that, any time soon, this crippling shortage will be met. Despite 25% unemployment in South Africa, hardly any of these are nurses. Anything that is in short...

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

...s there are significantly different to here. In Europe and the US the populations are older, more educated and unemployment levels are extremely low. This has lead to innovation and an explosion of ...

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

..., and completing the Comrades Marathon. The same is true of a nation. The official South African definition of unemployment is anyone aged 15 – 65 who has been actively looking for work in the ...

4. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...dubious value will be created and the state entrenches the idea of short-term contractual work as a solution to unemployment. And – you may consider this unusual coming from me – there is...

5. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

...al market, recognised by the state, the informal, or parallel, market starts to grow. There are base levels of unemployment and informality in even the most popular and sophisticated states. It acts...

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

...o Z $50 000 late at night. Then they have to get up early to repeat the performance to get back to work. With unemployment at 80% no-one with a job can afford to give it up. There are, however, win...

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

Small business development is a crucial part of government's strategy to reduce unemployment and increase black economic empowerment. Whythawk has recently completed rating individual small busine

8. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

... there is little room for more than one shirt, one pair of pants and one desperately shiny pair of shoes.  Unemployment is widespread.  These are the relatively destitute poor. The relations...

9. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... is no point to becoming healthy. It is a terrible problem. The simplest way to deal with the moral hazard of unemployment benefits is to say that the state will, through taxes, provide everyone wit...

10. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ncreases." Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete went even further into the mire: "The problem of youth unemployment is exacerbated by the global demographic trend which has seen the size of y...

11. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
(Analysis/Analysis)

"The graduate unemployment rate stands at 10.5% for 2005 - a rate higher than most national unemployment rates in comparable middle-income countries," declares Haroon Bhorat, director of the

12. A story of an African Orphan
(Analysis/Analysis)

... are just too many children who have been affected by AIDS. AIDS has come to South Africa on the back of high unemployment and poverty levels. The double effect on children is devastating. Generally...

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

...ganisations collectively managed to create approximately 8 200 jobs in the past 12 months. The average level of unemployment in the Western Cape is about 26% and, according to research conducted by th...

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

...e a significant preponderance of laws that protect workers rights and democracy, has struggled with an official unemployment rate of 25.6% which has remained fairly consistent for more than a decade.&...

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

Unemployment is currently at 26% according to the official statistical body in South Africa, Statistics South Africa.  Other unofficial broader measurements place the unemployment rate closer to

16. The Tyranny of Red Lights
(Analysis/Analysis)

... are so law abiding it leads to their harm. And South Africa has a problem.  We have lots of laws and 40% unemployment.  There are plenty of red lights preventing economic development with ...

17. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...courage people to be less effective than they could be. One of the most horrifying side effects of the chronic unemployment in South Africa is that people who have AIDS would rather not take anti-ret...

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

...iness or finance?  If you're the government of a failing economy with little business activity and 35% unemployment then the answer must surely be finance.  This short-sighted approach c...

19. A sense of scale
(Analysis/Analysis)

... as clear that Government needs to work with the private sector to create opportunities. Clearly, though - with unemployment figures remaining static over the past 10 years - this is not happening. &n...

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

...slation Close Corporations Act 69 of 1984 Income Tax Act 95 of 1967 Skills Development Levies Act No. 9 of 1999 Unemployment Contributions Act No. 4 of 2002 Unemployment Insurance Act No. 63 of 2001 V...