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- Understanding informal markets means remembering the past
- Statistics at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- The Market: in stokvels and community-investment groups
- The Market: in spaza shops and informal traders
- The Market: in taxi ranks and associations
- The Market: in foreign migrants and traders
- There is value in the informal sector, now what do you have to do?
- Fast Lessons: products that can be repackaged
- Fast Lessons: expensive consumer goods
- Fast Lessons: securing payment
- Fast Lessons: building trust relationships
- Fast Lessons: rebuilding your company culture and strategy
- Conclusions at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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- Google and the Cold War that businesses must play
- Africa, prosperity and its ever-seeking union
- And the eyes are always on us
- Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
- The World Cup is further away than many thought
- Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
- The infinite size of an infinitely sliced fish
- Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
- Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
- Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
- Nestle, Mugabe and the Devil’s Alternative
- And then there were Twenty
- Kenya and the mixed expectations of technical investment
- Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
- The delicate subject of patents
- A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
- American healthcare reform is merely a warm-up for the rest of us
- Getting the most out of a toaster
- Cash for junk, will it revive economies?
- Get your money for nothing and your mp3s for free
- Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
- The trouble with exports
- To consumers go the spoils of competition
- The day the pop-star died
- The right to sell is no different if you're a farmer, or a doctor
- Towards sustainable and organic work
- "If you cross the river, you will destroy a great empire."
- The end of the line for wild tuna
- Strikes won’t help, but a little ingenuity goes a long way
- The race between education and technology
- America's new environmental laws put pressure on global carmakers
- Picking winners has unintended consequences, sometimes they cause gas
- The privilege of employment
- The responsibility that comes with social grants
- Profitable Businesses Create Sustainable Jobs
- When Influence Trumps Ability Forget Investment
- The return to Serfdom
- Is the Tata Nano recession proof?
- The Contrition of the Bankers - the Rules can't save you now
- The risk of upending the tax base
- Where did South African manufacturing go?
- The Bonds of State
- The spectre of economic nationalism
- Money, Zimbabwe and the Credit Crisis
- YouTube can be a Star
- Steve Jobs, Apple and the CEO's Dilemma
- The EU pre-emptive ban on pesticides harms world trade
- The hardest year and the rediscovery of talent
- The nature of ownership changes as property becomes more intangible
- Entrenching the Wealth Gap
- Iceland, Crisis and the Wrong Way to Recovery
- Stimulating economic development by promoting price discovery
- America and the World after Barack Obama
- Different Choices in Revaluing the World Economy
- Government and Business, Panic and Rescue
- Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
- The joy of a good biotech lunch
- Zimbabwe's Hope Deterred
- The charity of dumping
- Higher food prices are good for the poor
- Prediction Markets for the Poor
- Zimbabwe: The beginning, and ending, of the beginning
- After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
- The Revenge of the Markets
- Trade Liberalisation isn't only between Rich and Poor
- Possession of state assets has become an end in itself
- The tragedy of Burma, should we help, how to help
- Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
- Apple, the destroyer of comfort-zones
- The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
- How to cross a river...
- South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
- Everything gets tested but political ideas, they become policy
- The errors of selection and confirmation bias
- No way out; ducking the Eskom bullet
- Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
- Xenophobia and the end of the African Renaissance
- When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
- Taxing the Future, Confusing the Present
- Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
- The hazard of market dominance
- When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
- Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
- Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
- Of Chiefs and Presidents
- Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
- Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
- Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
- The surplus is squandered, welcome to debt
- Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
- The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
- Simba the Saviour?
- Exports and parliamentary laziness
- Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
- Searching for objective measures of value
- Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
- This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
- Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
- Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
- 100 Days of Sodom
- Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
- The Miracle of Investment
- Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
- Africa, China and Investment
- China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
- The spectre of loyalty over ability
- Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
- Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
- Black Diamonds and the trouble with statistics
- Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
- Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
- Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
- Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
- Atlas Shrugged at 50
- Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
- Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
- Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
- Everything is coming up Capitalism
- Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
- South Africa's two tiers
- People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
- The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
- After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
- The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
- How every day on strike left civil servants permanently worse-off
- Getting Home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
- The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
- Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
- "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
- Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
- Start your business in Johannesburg but hire your advisor in Cape Town
- Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
- What comes after Capitalism?
- The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
- The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
- When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
- Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
- Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
- Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
- The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
- The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
- Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
- Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
- Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
- Government to gag South African bloggers?
- Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
- Have you paid your car guard today?
- One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
- Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
- Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
- The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
- Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
- Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
- Jimmy Wales, Digital Freedom South Africa: What would you ask him?
- Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
- What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
- Hedging and bundling; improving the efficiency of microlending
- Leveraging your good name; the power of a positive credit rating
- From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
- The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
- Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
- Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
- Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
- Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
- Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
- Zimbabwe at the Security Council; South Africa's unequivocal support
- Aggregation and collaboration: a guide to making money and doing good in poor nations
- AIDS and the cost of doing nothing
- While no-one was watching
- Making money, doing good
- The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
- Rating to create a market; questions and answers
- What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
- Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
- Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
- The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
- Mama Jackie - the "Angel of Soweto" - assaults a journalist
- The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
- The redistribution of poverty
- A story of an African Orphan
- Cry, The Beloved Country
- "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
- "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
- Western Cape economic development support agencies lack the capacity to halve unemployment
- The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
- We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
- World Cup 2010 asks for big sacrifices from the poor
- Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
- South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
- Enterprise Development and Employment: Experiences in South Africa and South Eastern Europe
- Bringing Capital to Small Enterprise
- How do we prepare nonprofit organisations for the long term?
- So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
- The Tyranny of Red Lights
- May I have the bill, please? A lesson in wilful ignorance ...
- Should charitable organisations be allowed to compete with businesses?
- The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
- What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
- The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
- The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
- Is the ownership of property at odds with the needs of the poor?
- Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
- Zackie Achmat, campaigner for HIV antiretrovirals, charged with genocide
- Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
- Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
- AIDS-related illnesses cost South African businesses up to R 2.2 billion per year
- No matter how hard you try bad environments lead to bad results
- Does Africa need the most expensive school in the world?
- Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
- The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
- The end of wild seafood and the myth of "free"
- X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
- A revitalised UN may improve development in Africa
- Is the $ 100 laptop no more than a really expensive light-bulb?
- How much does a free education cost?
- The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
- School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
- "Madiba's children" failed by their government
- The danger of wanting to believe in the power of good intentions
- What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
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