whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...ligarchic - where the bulk of the power and wealth is held by a small number of individuals and families; Russia 3) Big-firm - most of the economy exists in a few large corporations; South Africa 4)...

2. America and the World after Barack Obama
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e features. China has a dictatorial approach to free speech and limited tolerance for human rights. The Russians responded to the results of the US election by deploying missiles in Kaliningrad, nea...

3. The Revenge of the Markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

...intimidate everybody,” said James Carville, President Bill Clinton’s political advisor. The Russian stock exchange collapsed by 40% in response to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s s...

4. The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
(Analysis/Analysis)

...wondered what would have happened if Bill Gates had decided to set up in Canada instead of the US? Or if Russia had tried informed capitalism instead of Communism? When the Berlin Wall came down, t...

5. South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
(Analysis/Analysis)

In war, everyone loses. During the early 1990s, as the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia’s sphere of influence contracted until the waters of Europe was washing soggily up on Russia’s beache

6. Russia
(Emerging Markets/Eastern 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

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

... does not mean embracing mature free-market policies When the Soviet Union collapsed Boris Yeltsin, then Russia's president, attempted to launch the ex-communist state directly into a free-market...

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

...ligarchic - where the bulk of the power and wealth is held by a small number of individuals and families; Russia 3) Big-firm - most of the economy exists in a few large corporations; South Africa ...

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

...dent of WAN - in the Kremlin Palace and addressed President Putin on the thorny issue of press freedom in Russia. The year before, it was before President Roh in South Korea. Similarly – and rea...

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

...003.  Africa left the agenda.  The major political factions have never been as polarised.  Russia is fast becoming an autocratic dictatorship.  China has become a major, but self-i...

11. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ower-outages) on mysterious third-forces. The same is true of numerous state-monopolies; from Gazprom in Russia, to Airbus in Europe. CEOs may come and go, but the central philosophy that causes the...

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

...urist ever came close to imagining the extent of development.  And innovation is accelerating. When Russia emerged from their communist experiment it was as a nation materially and spiritually w...

13. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...es of products worthy of controlling.  Does it serve the public? Witness the furore in Germany when Russia cut off their gas supplies during a dispute with Belarus.  Eskom, the South Afric...

14. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e same as trying to convert a communist-era economy into a free-market one without turning it into modern Russia; filled with corruption, oligarchs and dramatic differences between rich and poor.&nbsp...

15. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
(Static Content)

...gypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey...