whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...ctual story is fiction, but only in the specifics, the general case is common, just having been exposed in Nigeria, but obviously more is secret than not. Enron was only different in that they sto...

2. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ful, capitalists. A quick glance around the planet reveals the opposite. Zimbabwe, North Korea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iraq all have lots of politics, but very little cash to spend. If anything, it appe...

3. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hem. If we disconnect production from employment then job creation becomes an astonishingly simple act. Nigeria, for instance, reports only 5.8% unemployment but 60% of the population earns less th...

4. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ot an indicator of success. India's is 7.8% and 25% of the population earns less than US$ 1 per day. Nigeria's is 5.8% but 60% of the population are below the poverty line. China's unem...

5. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s growth, then handing out more money makes little sense," they conclude. In a failed state, such as Nigeria or Sierra Leone or Myanmar or Zimbabwe, there is a clear government. What is not cle...

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

...ship with impoverished nations across the globe; from Laos to Bangalore, from Kazakhstan to Colombia, from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea. US discomfort with China says more about US fears of losing the...

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

...ivalent of millions of dollars in order to become Alexander VI, the 215th Catholic Pope. In comparison to Nigerian elections, he got in cheap. Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua is rumoured to have spent mor...

8. A revitalised UN may improve development in Africa
(Analysis/Analysis)

... currently under plough.  And all this land lies in a broad swathe across Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi, , Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique.  Most of the agricultural land in South ...