whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

...t like all the intermediate steps mucking about on the way up, but that\'s the way it works. Consider China which has, over the past decade, taken 300 million people out of poverty. That is quite ...

2.
(Comments)

...e writers suggest that they do themselves no favours by moving towards an unbalanced big-firm economy). China is using a mix of State-guided and entrepreneurial and is rapidly catching up. If anti...

3.
(Comments)

... where untrammelled brutality has been exercised in the name of profit (most recently at a brickworks in China) falls within countries that have little respect for individual rights, democracy or free...

4. Podcast: China's expansion in Africa offers risk and opportunities
(Podcasts/Emerging Market Risk)

China is rapidly becoming Africa's largest investor.  They require little in the way of good governance and are aggressively creating new infrastructure in their drive to secure resources for

5. Searching for objective measures of value
(Analysis/Analysis)

...$14.5 billion, 37% higher than Q2 2006, with particular strength across the key gold markets of Greater China, India, the Middle East and Turkey." These are all nations that have experienced l...

6. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s less than US$ 1 per day. Nigeria's is 5.8% but 60% of the population are below the poverty line. China's unemployment is 4.2% and only 10% of the population is below the poverty line. Why...

7. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rk path. Wary of western businessmen who demand respect for their property rights many are now courting China which asks for none of these rules. In only two years China has gone from virtually no i...

8. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nt a choking hazard to tiny tots. Mattel was quick to cast the blame at their largest manufacturers in China. EU and US politicians promptly suggested unilateral bans on Chinese-made goods and trad...

9. The spectre of loyalty over ability
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rants through market weight or legislative clout. Whenever external competition emerges – as with China and textiles – our companies beg for subsidies and then fail. Yet there are ideas....

10. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d goods have been increased with a view to stopping the cross-border trade with South Africa (and favour China) Mugabe announced yesterday that he intends remaining president and that mass natio...

11. Everything is coming up Capitalism
(Analysis/Analysis)

..., Baumol suggests that they do themselves no favours by moving towards an unbalanced big-firm economy). China is using a mix of State-guided and entrepreneurial and is rapidly catching up. The langu...

12. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
(Analysis/Analysis)

... just don't think of South Africa as a high-quality producer. Put it in other terms: you know that China is a low-cost bulk producer of cheap items. How would you feel if China attempted to mar...

13. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
(Analysis/Analysis)

...less they can guarantee themselves a monopoly. So, for instance, US companies wanting to do business in China look for local partners who can run the factories for them and simply supply goods. Euro...

14. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

... of the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government distributed a warning to all journalists in China telling them how to cover the event so as not to offend the state. Shi sent the message ...

15. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
(Analysis/Analysis)

...heir products hopelessly overpriced and uncompetitive. This widens the gulf between the rich and poor. China's great success has been recognising this and focusing instead on absorbing as much a...

16. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ctionist laws cause.  None of the workers could swim ... when the tide came in. Tides change.  China proves this. The poor are not just there to make things for rich people.  The poor a...

17. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...om Laos to Bangalore, from Kazakhstan to Colombia, from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea. US discomfort with China says more about US fears of losing their top-dog economic place in the world than of thei...

18. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ion that certain things be agreed in advance. At the same time Obasanjo began the second phase of his machinations. The government appointed Financial and Economic Crimes Commission declared that th...

19. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

... were subsequently arrested, tortured, and imprisoned. One journalist was Shi Tao. The police state is China. And the media company is Yahoo. Imagine this had been the New York Times? Judith Mill...

20. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

...l factions have never been as polarised.  Russia is fast becoming an autocratic dictatorship.  China has become a major, but self-involved, world player.  Europe’s economy is sick...

21. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d that Chinese farmed lobster were putting them out of business, US congressman acted quickly to declare China guilty of dumping and to levy huge duties on imported lobster. Imported foods are particu...

22. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ng before the Internet.  Wealth and stability produced the Internet, not the other way round.  China has created 300 million jobs in a decade with a government completely opposed to the Inte...

23. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t US$1 / day that everyone gets excited about) to less than 9% of their population.  This is led by China who has created 300 million jobs in the last decade.  Africa trails a lot, absolute ...

24. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
(Analysis/Analysis)

...do you expect me to help myself, I'm poor." It's an excuse everyone can use. In India and China, two billion people don't think of themselves as poor. They are certainly not wealth...

25. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...white farmers.  Iran’s fear of “the great Satan” and the rule of democracy.  China’s communists murdered hundreds and imprisoned thousands after the peaceful student ...

26. Aggregation and collaboration: a guide to making money and doing good in poor nations
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ful firms here shouldn’t be able to transfer these learnings into profitable ventures in India and China. And all of this benefits the poorest by providing them with top quality services at pri...

27. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ns to nations that lack a homogenous and large population attractive as a massive market (such as India, China or Indonesia), overwhelming business and financial power (such as Hong Kong, Taiwan or Si...

28. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...small committee of select minds should decide for everyone how we should respond. On the other side are China and India; two nations with massive levels of poverty and astonishing levels of economic ...

29. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
(Analysis/Analysis)

...est economic booms we have ever known, when more wealth has been created than ever – remain poor? China too, despite super-star neglect, has over the past 20 years reduced the number of people ...

30. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
(Analysis/Analysis)

China has issued the astonishing statement that there are now only about 85 million Chinese who may be considered as living beneath the poverty line.  This means that China, a nation of over 1.2

31. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... FLOW, writes that Walmart has, by the simple expedient of purchasing $ 23 billion of goods a year from China, assisted 460 000 Chinese a year out of poverty through jobs created in factories dedicat...

32. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...e to a basket of 30 emerging markets. These are as follows: Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Estonia, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Lithuania, Malaysia,...