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Would dropping the value of its currency be good for an economy?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... weak exchange rate can neutralise even the worst political and economic systems and problems. China ignores continuing demands from the US to strengthen its currency precisely because this low rate makes ... Monday, 30 August 2010 -
Finding economic growth when there is no world outside
Category: Blog/Analysis
... The way to change this - to create jobs and reduce poverty - is through economic growth. There must be more people producing more things, and more people must have more money to buy those things. It ... Thursday, 12 August 2010 -
Should South Africa get a Brazilian ... model ... of business?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... million, its economic growth rate - at 3.3% - felt anaemic next to other emerging markets. Yet Brazil was also one of the last big countries to enter recession during the credit crisis and the first of ... Thursday, 05 August 2010 -
Vuvuzelas: The difference between culture and imperialism can be subtle
Category: Blog/Analysis
... workers ($3.05). These wildly pedantic labour laws are one of the many things impeding Indian economic development, but it does not yet appear that Pragati is disobeying the law. That has failed to ... Thursday, 22 July 2010 -
The process of services commoditisation is happening faster than that for manufacturing
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A factory is an expensive thing. Massive machinery is immobile, often custom-built and rooted in place. New technologies or alternative work practices can be impossible to incorporate into existing systems. ... Thursday, 24 June 2010 -
Greece, Goldman and finding the Greater Fool
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... Greece is actually better financially managed than either of Zimbabwe or Venezuela, so perhaps Julius Malema can take them in too on his global tour of economic deathbeds. ... Thursday, 10 June 2010 -
Cash and Ash Crisis demonstrate global interdependency
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The unpronounceable Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland has caused incalculable economic damage, but this is a blog on analysis so an attempt must be made. 6.8 million passengers were stranded and airlines ... Thursday, 20 May 2010 -
Tackling the next banking crisis today
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The global financial crisis has not changed the nature of economic transactions. What it has shown is the shortcomings in risk assessment and quantification as well as the difficulties of legislating ... Thursday, 13 May 2010 -
Governments which demand to be the only investor can steal their citizens' savings
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... In this case “rent” does not mean earning profits from economic transactions (“profit seeking”) but that such income is derived through the manipulation or exploitation of the economic environment. Imagine ... Thursday, 29 April 2010 -
Poverty and the capacity for technology to bring Change
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... on market efficiency isn’t limited to emerging economies. Numerous studies have struggled to find a hard link between increased technology and economic returns. Clearly, the explosion of information ... Thursday, 22 April 2010 -
Job creation, innovation and the Apple iPad
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... hoped to put some fire back into the US economy. From the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, to Washington, to Pretoria, job creation – and the means to bring it about – is frustrating the politicians ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Africa, prosperity and its ever-seeking union
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... Sphere. The Imperial Army were not demolishing local governments and murdering people, they were simply chasing out Western imperialists and promoting regional economic union. The reason this was a ... Thursday, 04 March 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
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... any decision to limit carbon emissions will also limit the economic growth necessary to improve their citizens’ livelihoods. No country is willing to increase economic costs without everyone else also ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
... blame them for putting up prices? South Africa is also extremely under-resourced. Lack of infrastructure is often blamed for poor economic growth. 500,000 sports fans all arriving simultaneously are ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
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... large freshwater lake, the country suffers from drought, pathetic agricultural yields and perpetual economic mismanagement. William Kamkwamba overcame the educational disadvantage of being a Malawian ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
The infinite size of an infinitely sliced fish
Category: Blog/Analysis
... record, then does a whole bunch of reading of analysis reports and demographic and economic statistics to calculate what the future demand is likely to be. Then they make a price offer. This process ... Thursday, 28 January 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
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... The current prize stands at $2 million. The economics of space elevators are simple. It costs well over $11,000 per kilogram to lift a payload into space using conventional rockets. The cost of using ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
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... on everything. This isn’t possible and any act of centralisation must be to the detriment of individual choice, overall economic activity and democracy. The real social divide is not of wealth and poverty, ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
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... That’s the way it is supposed to work. Experience tells us that things ain’t that simple. Marginal effects can be become major economic catastrophes. Entire industries can be laid waste. Yet, when ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
The delicate subject of patents
Category: Blog/Analysis
... yield on the cost of ownership. This works so well that it has formed the bedrock of the path to wealth and economic stability. The problem comes in when we consider the property created by our minds. ... Thursday, 03 December 2009
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