whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...sity). They identify four types of capitalism: 1) State-guided - government \"guides\" the market; so France and Germany with their state \"champions\" 2) Oligarchic - where the bulk of the power...

2. France
(Emerging Markets/Western Europe)

  Poorest 20%: Market Opportunity: potential for social and economic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics

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

...aumol identifies four types of Capitalism: 1) State-guided - government "guides" the market; so France and Germany with their state "champions" 2) Oligarchic - where the bulk o...

4. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...#39;s can suffer from media indigestion," says Denis Muzet, director of the Mediascopie Institute in France. "Their anxiety increases with the decreasing depth and lack of context of stories...

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

... at George W Bush – then still considered a buffoon who became the accidental president – and France was sufficiently aligned with Atlantic interests to have placed Africa on the agenda. A...

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

In 1993 France instituted the European Banana Regime placing quotas on banana imports from outside of their trade preference agreements with Europe's old colonial trading partners, the African, Ca

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

...merica.” This was about 1970s England.  And they are comparing it to the current situation in France.  Yet it is as pithy a summary of the situation in South Africa as you could hope ...