whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...expect to go unpunished. The current suggestion to limit electricity consumption is to issue people with quotas. Quotas have been tried before. For the textiles industry, where importers could app...

2. 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

3. The end of wild seafood and the myth of "free"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...h stocks are almost finished. Governments have attempted to shore up fish stocks by issuing permits for quotas but these are only as good as their ability to enforce them.  European and Asian f...