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Africa, prosperity and its ever-seeking union
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... and leveraging their shared markets for mutual gain would be unlikely to ever go to war. His thoughts echoed those of Abraham Lincoln who had bound north and south into the United States after their destructive ... Thursday, 04 March 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
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“The trees gathered to agree a response to the growing threat of the Homo sapiens,” said the story-telling old lady who waylaid me in a park. “After several weeks of debate had passed, up rose Sam Sequoia ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
Europeans are waking up to the realisation that South Africa is not Germany. “The short haul meant thousands of supporters were able to make last-minute trips to Germany and they discovered excellent ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
Category: Blog/Analysis
What would you expect to see if you walked into a roomful of successful innovators? Would you expect them to dress the same? Have the same haircuts, or the same educational background or ethnic or cultural ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
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... States of America. Millions of others arrived in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina,” says Nicolas Evans of the University of Hull. As nations grapple with restructuring the world ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
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... sense. In the midst of municipal elections in South Africa, voters in numerous towns rioted and vandalised businesses in protest against a lack of service delivery by ruling African National Congress councillors. ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
Category: Blog/Analysis
... But it also takes years for new types of morbidities to become dominant. AIDS is highly contagious, but it was first identified back in 1984. It didn’t become endemic in South Africa until the mid-1990s. ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
And then there were Twenty
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... having them along is simply outrageous. In 2005, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa were invited to join in as “observers”. However, this wasn’t going to be sufficient. This isn’t just ... Thursday, 24 December 2009 -
Kenya and the mixed expectations of technical investment
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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 -
Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
Category: Blog/Analysis
... an industrial state and some Kibbutzim have successfully developed products to export. No Kibbutz is self-sufficient; all rely on exports or donations to keep going. Despite these lessons, the South ... Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... people enjoy their iPods, mobile phones and computer games to want a (short) life of bone-breaking toil ploughing the earth. In South Africa, though, small-scale farming is still seen as a genuine response ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
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... strike protests around South Africa during the most recent round of labour unrest. All of this, sometimes quite literally, is an attempt to hold a gun to employers’ heads and demand, “Keep paying our ... Thursday, 22 October 2009 -
Purchase Emerging Market Risk Reports
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... South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Eastern Europe Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Montenegro Poland Romania ... Friday, 16 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
... arbitrary employment rules like the ones which govern European fruit. South Africa’s striking state doctors currently have the choice of offering their services to the private sector instead. The government ... Thursday, 24 September 2009 -
The race between education and technology
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... of that border you’d rather be on. The South. As the sun goes down, South Korea is lit up by the phosphorous glow of electric lights and the hurly-burly of a population at play. South Korea is one ... Thursday, 20 August 2009 -
America's new environmental laws put pressure on global carmakers
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... has translated into billions of dollars in subsidies to promote local manufacturing. From export promotion subsidies in South Africa, to state-owned champions in Malaysia, to major tax breaks in the US ... Thursday, 13 August 2009 -
Picking winners has unintended consequences, sometimes they cause gas
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... must meet the demand of the population; something a windmill on every roof will never achieve. In a country like South Africa, where a large proportion of the population is still to own a car and power ... Thursday, 06 August 2009 -
The privilege of employment
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... low participation rate, then the number of unemployed can magically shrink and flatter politicians. In South Africa, there are 13.8 million people who have jobs, but over 30.8 million people of working ... Thursday, 30 July 2009 -
The responsibility that comes with social grants
Category: Blog/Analysis
... top 5% contributed 40% of state revenue. Lower tax resulted in greater investment. All things to be considered as the new South African government considers implementing a dole system for two million ... Thursday, 23 July 2009
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