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Finding economic growth when there is no world outside
Category: Blog/Analysis
... employs few but – along with charity and aid – supports the bulk of the continent’s economies. Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD club of wealthy nations, has been in South Africa. He identified ... Thursday, 12 August 2010 -
Measuring the effectiveness of charity spend
Category: Projects Delivered/Developmental
A national investment bank finds that they are unable to identify which of the various small business support agencies they finance across South Africa best delivers on their mandate of job creation. Approach: ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
The Contrition of the Bankers - the Rules can't save you now
Category: Blog/Analysis
... fundraisers who collect cash in a similar way; no-one ever asks if the charity concerned can actually absorb the cash so-raised. Many cannot, and rot soon follows. The US health service is one of the ... Tuesday, 09 June 2009 -
The charity of dumping
Category: Blog/Analysis
... With services charity, though, the donor gets a pleasant holiday in the sun. Social development charity may make the donor feel good about themselves and may make the beneficiary, briefly, feel better ... Wednesday, 05 November 2008 -
The tragedy of Burma, should we help, how to help
Category: Blog/Analysis
A tragedy, but how to help? Aung San Suu Kyi has been kept isolated and under military guard in Burma since she, and her political party, won their 1990 elections. She is currently the most famous political ... Tuesday, 16 September 2008 -
The surplus is squandered, welcome to debt
Category: Blog/Analysis
... want to be loved, and they don’t mind since it isn’t their money anyway, so they spend freely. Charity splashes vie for attention with new corporate headquarters and lavish bonuses. Cycles ... Sunday, 24 February 2008 -
Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
Charity doesn't grow economies South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ... Monday, 27 August 2007 -
Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in the first place. A state should realise that - as with any competitive environment - business owners and investors have the choice not to participate if they so choose. Charity supports the state ... Tuesday, 07 August 2007 -
After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... unable to exercise governance of their charity projects how are they running the core business? Whythawk continues to engage with companies wishing to take steps to ensure that their corporate social ... Tuesday, 03 July 2007 -
Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... I know who she is or where she's from or whether my "donation" will even be used appropriately? The belief that because it's charity I have no right to question it. Let's put that ... Wednesday, 23 May 2007 -
Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
Category: Blog/Analysis
... nations. Tax-payers in the rich world prefer to keep poor nations in permanent need of charity and aid (so that they can drive around in fancy off-road vehicles while lording it over the neglected ... Friday, 04 May 2007 -
From Charity to Investment
Category: Research & Ideas/Frontier Markets
In 1997, as part of the conditions they agreed upon for getting their cellular licence, Vodacom developed a sophisticated telephone call-centre. Technology created by Psitek, and housed in old shipping ... Friday, 27 April 2007 -
Understanding informal markets means remembering the past
Category: Research & Ideas/Frontier Markets
... our social responsibility programs?" And, since social programs have such poor results both the poor and the rich have come to accept that charity achieves next to nothing. It is now time to rethink ... Friday, 27 April 2007 -
Fast Lessons: building trust relationships
Category: Research & Ideas/Frontier Markets
... There are a number of ratings firms looking at the informal sector, however they tend to look at it purely from a charity perspective. The microfinance sector is becoming part of the formal banking sector ... Friday, 27 April 2007 -
Conclusions at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Category: Research & Ideas/Frontier Markets
... save the poor time and allow their money to go further. With greater savings they can invest further in their own well-being. This is not charity, it's the way business works. In conclusion: The ... Friday, 27 April 2007 -
Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
Category: Blog/Analysis
Do you have a hand ... out? "Well, something is better than nothing," said the well-dressed man at the charity launch function. "No it isn't. You're making the assumption that ... Monday, 16 April 2007 -
Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to contract in specialised, and costly, fundraising services. As with investment, so with charity; donors are spoiled for choice and those who wish to benefit must make it as easy as possible to inve ... Thursday, 22 March 2007 -
Rating to create a market; questions and answers
Category: Blog/Analysis
Until you measure it, you don't know The Whythawk team is going through an exciting period of growth; rolling out enterprise development ratings in Gauteng, and developing a new model for rating HIV/AIDS ... Thursday, 01 March 2007 -
What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
Category: Blog/Analysis
Today they love you ... tomorrow? There is an old saying that goes, “Why do you hate me, what have I ever done for you?” Perhaps chiming in with the even more prosaic, no good deed goes ... Tuesday, 27 February 2007 -
Mama Jackie - the "Angel of Soweto" - assaults a journalist
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to fabricate stories in an effort to raise funds for non-existing charity projects. She managed to defraud a number of people, including Nelson Mandela and Oprah Winfrey. Her image and organisation ... Monday, 19 February 2007
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