Hailed as one of the most influential books of the second half of the 20th century,
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered remains a profoundly salient work for our time. Its crucial emphasis on sustainability speaks powerfully to one of the great dilemmas of the 21st century: how to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation. Namely, the hundreds of millions of people in the Global South who are stuck in crushing poverty, for whom globalisation seems to have delivered only more suffering.
Small is not always beautiful, however.
This is especially true in African economies, where levels of formal employment are terrifyingly and persistently low. Insofar as job-creating businesses are concerned and at risk of sounding uncomfortably similar to Gordon Gecko
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The pandemic has jump-started e-commerce in South Africa.
One of the biggest winners may be Takealot.com, a local e-commerce website that launched nearly a decade ago and later became part of Naspers, Africa’s biggest company by market capitalization. Revenue at Takealot reached $238 million in the six months that ended Sept. 30, its most recently reported period. That’s up 41% from the same period a year earlier.
Developments such as same-day delivery of groceries and the ability to collect packages when and where convenient have paved the way for a growing number of South Africans to carry on from the comfort of home amid varying levels of a nationwide lockdown designed to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Curro s opened a tech-focused school in Delft, Cape Town. Executive Head Phil Snyman discusses the model that made it possible.
Private school group Curro has opened what it describes as a tech-focused school in Delft, on the outskirts of Cape Town.
The land was acquired through cooperation between Curro Holdings and Shoprite Holdings. Curro Delft is perfect for the high school learner who wants a modern Mathematics- and Science-based education and dreams of tertiary studies
The aim is to phase in one grade per year, as it adds buildings to the campus.
Based on Tile Shop’s latest earnings report for the quarter ending December 31, the company posted quarterly revenue of $81.56 million and quarterly net profit of $1.38 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $78.6 million and had a GAAP net loss of $4.25 million. The company has a one-year high of $7.70 and a one-year low of $0.90. Currently, Tile Shop has an average volume of 36.46K.
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