whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...n of the way it treats its own people. And I do believe one can label an entire country as being without ambition. After all, make things tough enough and anyone with any real skill migrates (viz....

2.
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...s from their current condition. Thats all fine, but where do you get off with the \"without local skill and ambition\" Can you really be so naive as to label an entire country as without ambition??...

3. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hose deemed to be "democratic" try a few tricks. Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, showed ambitions of extending his term, but was quickly brought down to earth. When you come to t...

4. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...the individual come in to this? Should we place the "needs" of a nation over our own desires and ambitions? The concept of a nation is rather tenuous. Now, as when we have recently won a ...

5. The Miracle of Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...oes not come about through the benevolence of an act of parliament. It comes about through the bravery and ambition of entrepreneurs and investors looking to their own profit. To the parliamentarian...

6. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...estors. It seems that even the Chinese are not safe from protectionist instincts. Without local skill and ambition to turn a piece of land into productive capacity Africa's only hope is with the...

7. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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...ews Corporation is even, as Murdoch was quick to point out when the Bancroft family protested his corporate ambitions, a family business. And now he finally has his prize: Dow Jones and The Wall Stree...

8. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability. The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to...

9. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

...es lying on our spindly backs, our limbs flailing in the air as the corporations lined against us tread our ambitions into dust. How did it go so wrong? When did hindsight become an excoriation of p...

10. Poverty: when second best isn't good enough
(Analysis/Analysis)

... an advantage in technology - that came later. Poverty is caused by a dearth of creative thinking and local ambition to succeed. Cheap offcuts do nothing to stimulate that ambition. What they do achie...