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Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
... affects everyone. Plus, for countries still well down the development cycle – countries which still intend to build power stations and whose citizens still don’t own microwave ovens and motorcars – ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
Category: Blog/Analysis
... was discovered by the international development community looking for good news stories. He has spoken at conferences, and now studies “leadership” in Johannesburg. There is no word as to whether he ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and production will change. The difficulty of economic development and poverty alleviation in the world’s poorest nations will get ever worse. This may all sound needlessly speculative but consider ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
Category: Blog/Analysis
... has led the Millennium Villages Initiative for the UN. As with other collective farming initiatives, this promises self-sufficiency and increased human development. According to the project website, ... Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
The delicate subject of patents
Category: Blog/Analysis
... a new drug to market, and the brief period they have to recoup their expenses before losing their patents. Software and Internet-based companies can justly point to the pace of development and that lengthy ... Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
The end of the line for wild tuna
Category: Blog/Analysis
... decision, not a consumer one. Only governments can commit to pay for the retraining and redevelopment necessary when entire industries are shut down and thousands lose their jobs. Only governments ... Thursday, 03 September 2009 -
Investment promotion at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Category: Projects Delivered/Governmental
... Train 250 new consultants to act as mentors to these new businesses; Develop an entirely new approach to business support and development that is distributed, robust and cheap. Solution: Innovative ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
Measuring the effectiveness of charity spend
Category: Projects Delivered/Developmental
... Comparison of the costs and results of a wide range of different development organisations engaged in entrepreneurial development; Required: Extensive analysis of the effectiveness of individual ... Monday, 06 July 2009 -
Is the Tata Nano recession proof?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in South Africa has left the motor industry woefully unprepared for changing economic conditions. The Motor Industry Development Program (MIDP) was introduced in 1995 to replace previous protections that ... Wednesday, 10 June 2009 -
Money, Zimbabwe and the Credit Crisis
Category: Blog/Analysis
... collapsed through greed and corruption. Development economists have been hoping for a peaceful transition to majority-rule so that there could be an orderly conversion to either US dollars or SA rand. ... Wednesday, 01 April 2009 -
Entrenching the Wealth Gap
Category: Blog/Analysis
... -aligned National Economic Development and Labour Institute. The remedy that COSATU, and other left-leaning organisations, offer is massive redistributive taxes levied on the rich. Why do these massive ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
Stimulating economic development by promoting price discovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
A war of discovery The process of economic development, or stimulating economic growth, is essentially one of enabling price discovery. The process of price discovery is not just about figuring out ... Tuesday, 17 February 2009 -
Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the purchase-price of rich Europeans’ and Americans’ luxury sedans. It’s called the Motor Industry Development Program, the MIDP. The intention of this subsidy is to promote exports ... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 -
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 -
Prediction Markets for the Poor
Category: Blog/Analysis
... systems don’t use “real” money, but produce accurate behaviour none-the-less. It also provides a mechanism which can answer a difficult development question. What is it that poor people ... Wednesday, 15 October 2008 -
Possession of state assets has become an end in itself
Category: Blog/Analysis
... are more desirable than private investment. A more nuanced approach to state-provided services would accomplish the dual objective of promoting private investment, infrastructure and service development, ... Tuesday, 23 September 2008 -
Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
Category: Blog/Analysis
... may choose to relocate to the other side of the Beit Bridge. This is a good thing for regional development. South Africa, as the only operating economy in the region (discounting both Botswana and Namibia ... Saturday, 28 June 2008 -
When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to stay in business) rather than give away shareholding in its company in order to become BEE compliant. The single exit price on pharmaceuticals has seen drug manufacturers remove their research and development ... Thursday, 29 May 2008 -
Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
Category: Blog/Analysis
... It is time to recognise that the state is quite incapable of running any services and that a change is necessary. There are two ways in which government can deliver on its "developmental state" ... Saturday, 15 March 2008 -
Simba the Saviour?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Secretary of the Southern African Development Community, (SADC). Dr Makoni is reported to have the backing of Solomon Mujuru (kingmaker in Zanu PF and husband to the vice-president) as well as that of ... Sunday, 10 February 2008
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