whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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Mugabe seem to be over correcting the balance. I wish he was more systematic about it. There was definitely a need to revisit Zimbabwe\'s property rights.

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...ism is that it controls lives without giving us a say. Organisations like unions are a corrective. Mugabe is a dictator on his last legs, trying to shore up support. To attempt to link this to ...

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...ising that only one protester got killed. Imagine such a protest taking place in Zimbabwe? Do you think Mugabe\'s police would be as generous? And a strike is no more effective than a war. Soone...

4. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rents never saw their children and many grew up as orphans. One man emerged from the war a hero. Robert Mugabe, loved by his people and an envy to many leaders still under colonial oppression. He ca...

5. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d for his reaction to one of the Zimbabwean government's trusted generals abandoning President Robert Mugabe's bandwagon. Former Home Affairs minister and Politiburo member Dumiso Dabengwa, ha...

6. Simba the Saviour?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...romise of a real challenge, in Morgan Tsvangirayi and the MDC, was just another fizzled attempt to ruffle Mugabe's feathers. Lacking a credible leader, the challenge of the MDC was short lived. T...

7. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
(Analysis/Analysis)

... is not freely given. It is a lesson few governments in Africa have cared to learn. Last week saw Robert Mugabe's thuggish regime claim ownership of Olivine, a large cooking-oil producer. Many g...

8. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r the sake of those who are evil?" Consider a préci: In 2001 Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, started taking the most productive farms away from their owners and passing them on to...

9. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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...n is around 11 000% The descent from horror to more horror Since then the following has happened: Mugabe unilaterally declared that all prices must be halved; the immediate run on goods emptie...

10. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
(Analysis/Analysis)

Anti-capitalist demonstrators around the world should be celebrating. Robert Mugabe's government has taken those against free-markets at their word. Over 1 300 business owners have been arrested

11. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ARDtalk. "It has already collapsed," said Whythawk. Zimbabwe, for all the posturing by Robert Mugabe - their increasingly detached tyrant - is a fairly open economy. Their people are used...

12. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
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...abwe will not be mentioned," he laughs again. Kukah was alluding to Zimbabwe's dictator, Robert Mugabe, who, after stealing the last pretence at elections in his country in 2003, received So...

13. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
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...e in Cambodia gave way to Pol Pot, the Khmer’s Rouge and the killing fields.  Zimbabwe’s Mugabe has justified his oppressive and heavy-handed dictatorship in terms of redistribution o...

14. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...pay little attention to their own development.  In Zimbabwe the very foreign governments that Robert Mugabe rails against are responsible for feeding his starving people.   North Korea is th...