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Finding economic growth when there is no world outside
Category: Blog/Analysis
... wealth distribution. Allowing inequality, permitting informal economies; acknowledging that these are imperfect. Poverty is awful, but the path out is in allowing people to produce what they can, ... Thursday, 12 August 2010 -
Should South Africa get a Brazilian ... model ... of business?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... host the FIFA World Cup in 2014, and the Olympics in 2016. Brazil has an energetic informal sector trading in locally-produced goods that emerge from small-scale farmers and manufacturers. South Africa’s ... Thursday, 05 August 2010 -
Are markets incompatible with democracy?
Category: Blog/Analysis
Protesters in Greece carry banners reading "IMF and EU are stealing a century of social progress" and "Take the money thieves and not the workers". Greeks are not alone in feeling that markets wag the ... Thursday, 03 June 2010 -
Reducing risk for the poorest of the unbanked and uninsured
Category: Blog/Analysis
The range of interest rates applied to micro-credit loans can be chilling. 45% to 85% in Africa, 30% in India and a jaw-dropping 155% in Mexico. “What should be the appropriate rate of interest?” thunders ... Thursday, 15 April 2010 -
Paying for Universal Healthcare
Category: Blog/Analysis
Otto von Bismarck looms large in German history. He unified the Prussian states and became the first Chancellor of the fledgling German Empire in 1871. Ironically, the man known as the Iron Duke – who ... Thursday, 08 April 2010 -
And then there were Twenty
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Accordingly, the Doha round of trade talks has been in dead-lock since 2001. For this reason, some of the bigger economies like to get together and discuss things informally and see if they can come ... Thursday, 24 December 2009 -
Kenya and the mixed expectations of technical investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
The wealthiest Kenyans are barely distinguishable from the poorest South Africans, yet East Africa is now a flurry of excitement as investors congregate. In August, the first of three major undersea ... Thursday, 17 December 2009 -
Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
Category: Blog/Analysis
“Why has your factory been so neglected? They’ve turned it into a rubbish dump. Why was everyone running around like cockroaches before my arrival? Why was no one capable of taking decisions?” demanded ... Thursday, 22 October 2009 -
The trouble with exports
Category: Blog/Analysis
The South African rand trades at about R 7.70 to the US dollar. This rate implies that, if you travel to another country, whatever you buy there should cost the same as you buy locally, when you account ... Thursday, 15 October 2009 -
The right to sell is no different if you're a farmer, or a doctor
Category: Blog/Analysis
In Europe, it is illegal to sell unusually shaped produce for more than 40 types of vegetables and fruit. For 20 years, bureaucrats in Brussels have come up with rules like “Class 1 cucumbers must be ... Thursday, 24 September 2009 -
The privilege of employment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of the employer. Most people working in the informal sector are paid through piece-work, or through a day-wage. There is no guarantee of continuous work, or of security of employment. One Khayelitsha ... Thursday, 30 July 2009 -
The responsibility that comes with social grants
Category: Blog/Analysis
There is nothing quite like being protested against by a bunch of long-haired, smelly people in home-crafted clothes who have never had a job, have no intention of ever getting a job, have no money to ... Thursday, 23 July 2009 -
The Internet, Sockpuppets, and the Broken Tail
Category: Research & Ideas/Ideas
Why is the Internet like Zimbabwe ... a country where 12 million people survive in a turbulent, informal market, dominated by wealthy dictators, with 11 million percent inflation, and no rule of law? Because ... Thursday, 16 July 2009 -
The Contrition of the Bankers - the Rules can't save you now
Category: Blog/Analysis
Resign or go commit suicide... "Come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I'm sorry. And then either do one of two things, resign or go commit suicide," said US congressman Chuck ... Tuesday, 09 June 2009 -
Entrenching the Wealth Gap
Category: Blog/Analysis
Big City ... beyond the shacks Ex-President Thabo Mbeki used to lament conspicuous consumption by the wealthy, even as governments of the world push trillions of dollars of borrowed cash at consumers ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009 -
Iceland, Crisis and the Wrong Way to Recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
Northern Bright-lights It is a 50-minute journey along a straight and isolated highway from Keflavic International Airport to Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik. Time enough for my taxi-driver to ... Monday, 02 March 2009 -
Government and Business, Panic and Rescue
Category: Blog/Analysis
The Sinking of the Economy The US Senate has just passed a $ 700 billion rescue package to end the carnage on their stock exchanges, and consequently stabilising the credit contagion that has spread around ... Wednesday, 26 November 2008 -
The joy of a good biotech lunch
Category: Blog/Analysis
Try not to over-eat Prince Charles, a chinless British Royal and the product of generations of selective in-breeding, recently declared that the production of genetically modified (GM) foods is the worst ... Wednesday, 12 November 2008 -
Possession of state assets has become an end in itself
Category: Blog/Analysis
Are you a mug ... person? Imagine you were offered the choice of a rather ordinary coffee mug, or a big slab of chocolate. Which would you prefer? Now, say you really preferred the chocolate but were ... Tuesday, 23 September 2008 -
Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
Category: Blog/Analysis
... springing up. Even the informal markets are full of produce, cheap Chinese clothing and Indian bicycles. The structure of Mozambique's economy doesn't, however, look very different from that ... Tuesday, 09 September 2008
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