whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sequences that ripple out far further than you can predict. Kenya's elections have resulted in violent conflict stemming from the failure of two men to agree on what is best for all. The Kenyan ...

2. The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
(Analysis/Analysis)

...i) depends on it. But that isn't true everywhere. Thomas Friedman coined the McDonald's Theory of Conflict Resolution to explain why he thought nations that shared a common fast-food culture...

3. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ith free speech. A few examples from her opus of quotes: On US mediation in the ongoing Palestinian Israeli conflict:  "The ID believes that the US is a threat to the independence of the jud...

4. The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
(Analysis/Analysis)

... is Robert Fisk, one of the Independent's journalists, whose controversial opinions and coverage of the conflict in the Middle East has turned him into a media celebrity. These expensive personal...

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

...gned with Atlantic interests to have placed Africa on the agenda. Africa, let’s face it, is a mess of conflicting ideologies, bad governments and hideous poverty.  Some is the fault of outs...

6. Have you paid your car guard today?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...could get “real” jobs if they wanted but they enjoy putting our tempers in a huff. This type of conflict is normal for a country in transition.  Industrialising England of Charles Dic...

7. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
(Analysis/Analysis)

“A lot of the conflict happening in society comes from shifting identities brought about by technological change,” said Western Cape Premier, Ebrahim Rasool.  “The more uncertai

8. Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...eview process, or to be self-regulated.  This will not work and will not be trusted; there is too much conflict of interest in organisations being rated by their fundraisers, or by each other.&nb...

9. Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
(Analysis/Analysis)

The debate about Climate Change is increasingly acrimonious and defensive.  At core is conflict over whether or not anthropomorphic (human) carbon emissions are responsible for global warming. T

10. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
(Analysis/Analysis)

...he fund.  Turns out she took an R 8 million soft loan from Fidentia, such declared as a "material conflict of interest" by the FSB in January. What’s good about all this disclosu...

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

...t.  No, not the Cold War; Global Warming. During the Cold War the United States and the USSR fought a conflict of attrition; each using proxies to fight their ideologies across the planet. ...

12. Zackie Achmat, campaigner for HIV antiretrovirals, charged with genocide
(Analysis/Analysis)

... wild accusation and demands of an impartial international court that it decide on a matter of purely local conflict.  It is one that the South African government may regret ever having come to l...

13. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ey were naïve. At worst the ((iPhone)) will have no material impact on the lives of refugees from the conflict in ((Darfur)) or those suffering under the dictatorship in ((Zimbabwe)).  They...

14. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rvive why would you work? And this is the difficulty of development:  how do you transition to a post-conflict development model from that of conflict-survival?  A people who have learned t...

15. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ip.  That was the year that the first crop of students were due to graduate.  None did.  The conflict died down but suspicions still linger. In the case of charitable educational instit...

16. The carnage on South Africa's roads
(Analysis/Analysis)

...compare this to actual war-zones: the few hundred who have died in the past year in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; or even the few thousand who've died in the past year in Iraq.  12 - 14 0...

17. Ithala and The Corruption Of Development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a, and head of treasury, Sipho Shabalala.” In response to what can only be described as a fraudulent conflict of interest, Zweli Mkhize responds, “Any member of the executive, the legisla...

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

...kforce must remain in the country. This could increase the levels of frustration locally and act to trigger conflict or instability. Scenario 4: Two nations in one country This is an unusual curve. ...

19. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
(Static Content)

...l [Section 51(3)] Introduction to Whythawk Development CC Whythawk Development CC helps developing or post-conflict societies achieve their goals of growth through the creation and implementation of ...

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

...kforce must remain in the country. This could increase the levels of frustration locally and act to trigger conflict or instability. Scenario 4: Two nations in one country This is an unusual curve. ...

21. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
(Static Content)

...l [Section 51(3)] Introduction to Whythawk Development CC Whythawk Development CC helps developing or post-conflict societies achieve their goals of growth through the creation and implementation of ...