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Would dropping the value of its currency be good for an economy?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... them the world’s manufacturing hub. South Africa’s unemployment levels are the worst of any industrial economy. The expanded rate is at 35.9 percent and 870,000 have lost their jobs in the last 12 months. ... Monday, 30 August 2010 -
Should South Africa get a Brazilian ... model ... of business?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... such a bed-rock of micro-industry the poor are even more reliant on social services. Which aren't working. In addition, politics interferes with all levels of business investment. The private healthcare ... Thursday, 05 August 2010 -
The process of services commoditisation is happening faster than that for manufacturing
Category: Blog/Analysis
... an hour. In Mexico it is $3 an hour for the same skill level. With the capital equipment paid off, labour becomes the biggest fixed cost. A wage difference like that can be very attractive to investors ... Thursday, 24 June 2010 -
Tackling the next banking crisis today
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and accountability. Better analysis of individual credit risk can also inform the higher levels of finance upon which such micro-economic transactions are based. Existing banks are closely involved ... Thursday, 13 May 2010 -
Paying for Climate Change with a Carbon VAT
Category: Blog/Analysis
... way of doing this is “cap and trade” where a fixed level of carbon dioxide will be set and then companies can trade emission allowances for the rest. The problem with this approach is that no-one can ... Thursday, 06 May 2010 -
Reducing risk for the poorest of the unbanked and uninsured
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to clients, the operational cost of serving that loan, as well as the loan loss reserve to cover defaults. Smaller loans, at the $50 level, still have these fixed costs. The easiest way to lower interest ... Thursday, 15 April 2010 -
Paying for Universal Healthcare
Category: Blog/Analysis
... a new insurance scheme covered everyone, everyone would still be reliant on the state to build new hospital beds to provide such care. To give you a sense of what is required to provide a German level ... Thursday, 08 April 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in sulphur emissions. Within a decade, sulphur dioxide levels fell faster than anyone had predicted and for much lower cost. A similar mechanism to reduce carbon emissions would be expected to work ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
... above sea level. This is the altitude necessary to achieve geostationary orbit in which a satellite remains fixed over a point on the earth below. “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
Category: Blog/Analysis
... at its most basic level. A person who has a real choice of business offerings will learn that changing a mind does not have to involve physical conflict. And democracy really can be built one restaurant ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
Category: Blog/Analysis
In 1967, President Julius Nyerere of newly independent Tanzania, announced the Arusha Declaration. In it, he described a new African Socialism and the imposition of self-sufficient collective farming ... Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
Purchase Country Insight Reports
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Whythawk PhaseZero reports offer rapid, high-level comparative country insight. Our reports combine quantitative and qualitative content with striking data visualisation. To assist comprehension, chart ... Friday, 16 October 2009 -
The end of the line for wild tuna
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to 60,000 tons. Wild fish stocks are expected to drop below harvestable levels within the next 40 years. Environmentalists blame the “greed” of fisherman and the multinational companies that employ ... Thursday, 03 September 2009 -
The race between education and technology
Category: Blog/Analysis
... educated and with lower life-expectancy and employment levels than the historical West. And this despite the heavy industrialisation of East Germany by the Soviets prior to 1989. Clearly, North and ... Thursday, 20 August 2009 -
The privilege of employment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... The government has promised to create 1 million jobs a year until 2014 in order to halve unemployment (which means they believe unemployment to be 41%). This level of job creation can be measured and ... Thursday, 30 July 2009 -
When Influence Trumps Ability Forget Investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, reduced the statute of limitations while in office to ensure that charges of corruption levelled against him lapsed. When it becomes apparent that the favour of the highest ... Wednesday, 24 June 2009 -
The Contrition of the Bankers - the Rules can't save you now
Category: Blog/Analysis
... only a small number of people are at the coal-face. Call it the Iceberg Enterprise. You only get to see a small amount of what is really going on. In order to align all the people at various levels ... Tuesday, 09 June 2009 -
The EU pre-emptive ban on pesticides harms world trade
Category: Blog/Analysis
... may cause humans. The products are diluted to a particular level and then fed to lab rats which are then monitored for ill-health. If the dilution at which the product becomes toxic falls below a certain ... Sunday, 15 March 2009 -
Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in foreign lands. Or, a larger profit to the multinational corporation that produces them and isn’t officially based in South Africa anyway. You are also paying about R 25,000 extra on an entry-level ... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 -
The joy of a good biotech lunch
Category: Blog/Analysis
... has offered PDL BioPharma nearly $1.16 billion in order to secure the distribution rights to PDL’s antibody products. The Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh 'Biosciences Tech Belt' in the US attracted $343 ... Wednesday, 12 November 2008
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