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THE CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ENTERPRISE (CDE) is an independent policy research and advocacy organisation. It is one of South Africa's leading development think tanks, focusing on critical national development issues and their relationship to economic growth and democratic consolidation. Through examining South African realities and international experience, CDE formulates practical policy proposals outlining ways in which South Africa can tackle major social and economic challenges. CDE has a special focus on the role of business and markets in development.
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HIDDEN ASSETS: South Africa's low fee private schools
The South African public schooling system fails to provide major sections of society - particularly poorer people - with an adequate education. In other developing societies with struggling public systems, the gap has been filled by an extraordinary phenomenon, namely the growth of private schooling for the poor. While this has largely gone unrecognised, private schools for the poor have also begun to emerge in South Africa and their numbers are growing rapidly. Read more>> |
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A JOB FOR EVERY SOUTH AFRICAN - Ann Bernstein
South Africa has some of the worst employment figues in the world. Nearly five and a half million people - one in every six adults - are out of work in South Africa. Unemployment at this level is one of the most important causes of poverty and inequality and contributes to political instability. Unemployed people are more likely to be tempted into crime or to respond violently to the pressures caused by population growth and poor service delivery. Worst of all, unemployment is a terrible waste of human potential and a continued assault on human dignity. Almost every unemployed person could and should be doing productive work that would improve their lives and develop the country. Read more>>
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THE CASE FOR BUSINESS IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES -
Ann Bernstein
A new agenda for the role of business in development, and a call to arms ... Business leaders should take from it the intellectual confidence they need to defend the irreplaceable role of business qua business. - Martin Wolf, The Financial Times
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BUSINESS AND SCHOOLING REFORM: What can we learn from experience in the United States?
The South African education system is large and complex. More than 12 million learners are enrolled at more than 30 000 schools in some 70 school districts in nine provinces. The system is staffed by some 385 000 educators. There are huge differences within and among provinces, districts, and schools.
The United States also has an enormous and complicated educational system. It also falls short of producing the volume of skilled people needed to ensure that the country remains globally competitive. Businesses in the United States have attempted to address the challenges posed by their system. In December 2008 CDE hosted a workshop in Washington DC on the role of business in schooling reform in the United States. Read more>>
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POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: Facts, trends, and hard choices
What should be done about South Africa's deep and persistent inequality? Perhaps we first need to ask another question: 'What can be done about it?' The first thing to recognise is the sheer scale of the challenge. In 2008, the richest 10 per cent of households in South Africa earned nearly 40 times more than the poorest 50 per cent. More dramatically still, they earned nearly 150 times more than the poorest 10 percent.
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