whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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... is a major cause of lack of progress in developing and third world nations. What needs to be done is fair restitution. If the country gets back enough remittances and even a percentage of the emigran...

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... They\'re not even about rich and poor. And it\'s not about equality. It\'s exactly what I said: fairness. The articles are posted as a continuing series of evolving thoughts. This is part of...

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My point is exactly what you have conceded - its the rich and the poor and not the \"fair skinned\" and \"dark skinned\" as in your original posting.

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...at the conclusion that poverty is the fault of the rich and that they got rich through some form of unfairness. Like rich people stole all the poor people\'s iPhones. This article is about Zimbabw...

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...nding of these things: aren\'t you the nut who proposed, a while back, that capitalism was the same as air? That we could no more live without capitalism than we could without air? Since you don\'t...

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...ng 1Time and Kulula with SAA\'s cross-subsidised Mango service. Budget operators are amongst the only airlines making real cash internationally (think Ryanair, easyJet, Southwest Airlines, etc.). Wi...

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I buy your argument about education but I don\'t think the budget airline is a good analogy, as I know there are other factors involved such as cross-subsidy with tax-payers\' money. So the current

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In 1978 in the Australian outback - long before the advent of cheap computing - the School of the Air was launched. Teachers communicated with their students over ham-radio and thousands of kids got

9. Trade Liberalisation isn't only between Rich and Poor
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...een states when such disputes arise? An organisation that would ensure that countries don't get to unfairly erect trade barriers to punish some, and benefit others, but that the same rules govern eve...

10. Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
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...ngula; two towns interesting only because the president sometimes likes to visit and the road from the airport is a dirt track. The colonial-era train station in Inhambane, a sea-side resort town, ha...

11. The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
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...unremitting brutality”. Consider the power of the margin. Say the average inter-city passenger airplane can carry a maximum of 150 passengers. Now, they may fly full at peak times, but they d...

12. Everything gets tested but political ideas, they become policy
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...ceforth every household would have to pay two shillings per year, per chimney. It was designed to be fair, in that the wealthy had more chimneys and should, therefore, pay more. It was an extremely ...

13. When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
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...ges, even went so far as to declare everything as being rosy. Law suits for breach of contract are a fair way to demand that the other party honours their promises. For governments no less than busi...

14. The hazard of market dominance
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... to beat up the biggest bully in the school. The geeks response may have been disproportionate and unfair, but they still have a concern that needs addressing. It isn't ethical, or even good bu...

15. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
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...n government's trusted generals abandoning President Robert Mugabe's bandwagon. Former Home Affairs minister and Politiburo member Dumiso Dabengwa, has defected to Simba Makoni's side. Ano...

16. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
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...' newly elected president – declares that he finds South Africa's high interest rates unfair on the poor. When you borrow money from your bank what you are really doing is purchasing fu...

17. Exports and parliamentary laziness
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...at line plant in Springs is their second line, and only the third in the whole continent of Africa. Chairman Ronnie Lubner, speaking at the official launch, was – momentarily – overcome b...

18. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
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...story: the industrial revolution. With it came the astonishing innovations that led to the motor car, airplanes and cellular phones. The 2,000 years of the middle ages came to a cacophonous end with...

19. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
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... environmental effects of mass production are a major cause of global warming and the poisoning of our air, water and soil." This being the third-tier of their justification for promoting "h...

20. 100 Days of Sodom
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...skilled sectors) when everyone is entitled to 100 days of paid work? How will the state adjudicate unfair dismissal when unscrupulous companies declare that they're obeying the spirit of "10...

21. Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
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...know better. Speaking in Wallmansthal last week at a land hand-over ceremony, Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana stated that, "Upon the date of transfer, the property shall not ...

22. The Miracle of Investment
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...quot;Look here," said the man in the parking lot. "No, I'm not begging. Look at this chair. It is the first one he has made." Beside him was a wooden chair made of slim poles in...

23. The spectre of loyalty over ability
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...s and then fail. Yet there are ideas. Buried inside the heads of individual men and women sitting in airline seats as they emigrate to nations more accepting of such "deviancy". Massive p...

24. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
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...oods that are imported. The main reason cited for this is that it protects the local industry from unfair competition and saves jobs. We can argue about this where the imports compete with goods man...

25. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...y central state wanting to represent the interests of its people should be doing its best to set up a fair and equitable legal and economic framework. If corrupt politicians are rewarded and kept in o...

26. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
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... ensure you cannot port your phone with you if you change providers. It's a horrible state of affairs and completely anti-competitive, and it has had the side effect of conditioning people to ...

27. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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...9;s purchase of the newspaper, I am concerned that it will be very difficult for the Journal to offer fair and balanced reporting under the pressures of a giant-media conglomerate." Which is bul...

28. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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...ated to the UK and South Africa. The idea that the benefits experienced by the most able are "unfair" is delusional when compared to how little the average worker has contributed towards th...

29. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
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...e disease dead. The ignorance of the free-rider Try and grasp how awful these diseases are. They are airborne and easy to get, especially amongst groups of children. The fatality rate in un-immunis...

30. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
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...rsity Board. Meetings that used to take four hours now take two days," says Judge Mervyn King, Chair of the Global Reporting Initiative and the King Commission on Corporate Governance. "Th...

31. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
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...ythawk. Zimbabwe, for all the posturing by Robert Mugabe - their increasingly detached tyrant - is a fairly open economy. Their people are used to processed goods imported from outside the country a...

32. After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
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...ful development results. The ICGN conference concludes on Friday with a session led by Mervyn King, chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, to discuss exactly these po...

33. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
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...r environment and made us sick."African civil society organisations at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, 2007 Reading Farming Solutions, a joint initiative of Oxfam and Greenpeace, we discover ...

34. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
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... and recent blog convert, is interviewing a panel of South African wine experts at the Cape Town Book Fair. "Is the wine industry in crisis?" he asks, mock seriously. But it is serious. O...

35. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
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...ndustry wrought by blogging and social networking; those from the developing world expressed their despair at bannings, torture and exile. The first frontier: liberation One Guinean journalist, wit...

36. What comes after Capitalism?
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...s protested outside, each outdoing the next in plaintive cries and outlandish dress. Eventually the chairman spoke: "Ladies and gentlemen, a decision has been reached. The system is beyond ref...

37. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
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... cost of cleaning it, you get clean water. If a market-driven price is put on carbon credits or clean air then businesses will simply optimise this. The duty of governments and legislators is not to...

38. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
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South Africa is a microcosm for all the world's greatest unresolved itches.  Here we have fair-skinned folk living in shiny new cities with first-rate infrastructure and access to all the be

39. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...d. Some 8 million people of working age are looking for jobs. Surely when they find them it is only fair that the pay be good? The South African Department of Labour recently announced a minimum wa...

40. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
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...is taking place on MXit or the Internet de Lille launches forth, "We are already struggling to repair the social fabric of our society, and to tolerate a platform for this kind of sexual predatio...

41. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
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...nteresting that (South African) President Thabo Mbeki was the first to declare the elections free and fair and to congratulate Yar'Adua on his success. I don't know what he sees that we don&#...

42. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
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... New York Times journalist, went to jail in 2005 rather than reveal her source in the Valerie Plame affair. Here a major media company supported its journalist's right to protect her source. It...

43. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
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...h Salaam.  "Not only will the meal be prepared to a significantly higher standard than other airline food, but ..." he pauses dramatically, "you get fed first."  And he l...

44. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
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...g that, "When elephants fight only the grass gets trampled." It eloquently expresses the despair that ordinary people feel when the people who claim to represent their interests fight over t...

45. Government to gag South African bloggers?
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...s and Publications Amendment Bill.  Khulekani Ntshangase, spokesman for the department of Home Affairs declared, "We prefer the media to regulate itself but in the event that those organisat...

46. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
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...ons movement, will have nothing of these namby-pamby sentiments.  He believes that everything is fair game and that remixing – as he calls it - must be encouraged. Presenting video-clip exa...

47. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
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...ld shipping containers, allowed for the distribution of fixed location cell-phones that could purchase airtime directly over the Vodacom network.  Call costs were limited to 29 cents per minute.&...

48. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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...high value beans, then charged ITC at the higher-value price. It was an inefficient and inherently unfair process. The ITC E-Choupal Project has been an unbounded success with farmers getting signif...

49. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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... people in Ethiopia!’ and so they grow up associating poverty with starvation and impossible despair,” says Prahalad.  “It is very difficult to transform that type of thinking i...

50. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
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...team’s poor performance than are any of the players to be held to account.  Like a national airline, having a national cricket side is more important than having a good national cricket sid...