whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...sasters at the feet of leaders of companies that sell cars, cell phones and microwave ovens? I was at a biofuels conference late last year where a stunned British executive, having recently travell...

2. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
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... taken place against the backdrop of rising subsidies to farmers to sell their crops for the production of biofuels. Countries (such as the US) with large maize industries have promoted the conversio...

3. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
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... US has a similar attitude to sugar-cane, preferring to give its corn farmers massive subsidies to produce biofuels rather than buy from Brazil where sugar-cane is cheaper and more environmentally fri...

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

At a recent international biofuels conference1 held in Cape Town a British businessman stood up and declared, “Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to be the middle-East of biofuels.” He