whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

...babwe was one of the wealthiest nations in Africa. Did they get poor because of rich Americans or government corruption and failed economic policies? Rich people have no interest in poor people. ...

2. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s, didn't get quotas, had to stop manufacturing and retrench employees. Quotas lead to opportunities for corruption as insiders trade contacts and cash for larger allocations. Money supply and l...

3. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rms were removed from the constitution. Bongo was accused of wanting to become life president. Accusations of corruption have long been levelled against Bongo. Also in 2003, Bongo was implicated in th...

4. Simba the Saviour?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ected among many sectors of the country. He is widely considered to be the only man in the ruling party to be corruption-free; a major achievement, if true. "Simba" in Zimbabwe is a Shona...

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

...d kept in office then no amount of incentives is going to make businesses who abandoned the state come back. Corruption breeds corruption. What the state should do is ignore the informal sector and ...

6. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...l than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your s...

7. Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
(Analysis/Analysis)

Corruption is a result of poor disclosure and weak systems and institutions. The bankruptcy process in South Africa is from the Victorian era and tends to place a terrifying burden on all involved. Th

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

...ionship, though: a low distribution of power with a wide distribution of wealth does run the risk of fuelling corruption; while a concentration of wealth with a wide distribution of power can lead to ...

9. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
(Analysis/Analysis)

... Financial and Economic Crimes Commission declared that they would publish a list of public figures guilty of corruption. Many of the most attractive candidates found themselves listed. This went to...

10. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

...uma has announced his candidacy for the presidency. Zuma is the ex-deputy president fired for connections to corruption in a multi-million Rand arms deal.  It gets worse: his financial advisor i...

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

...important than having a good national cricket side. Where businesses are treated in similar fashion, similar corruption, misrule and incompetence prevails.  There is one electricity provider in ...

12. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e past should not be used as an ongoing excuse to perpetuate continuing injustice.  That way lies future corruption, autocracy and dictatorship.  We have seen this before.  Colonial rul...

13. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
(Analysis/Analysis)

Echoing the cry of every volunteer who has ever run away to some disabled and corrupt country, Dr Nicholas Garrigan rages at a British diplomat, “You guys come here and don’t recognise tha

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

...dash; imposed from the outside – come laws and regulations that benefit South Africans.  Fraud and corruption at the highest levels are often blamed for the perpetuation of poverty and it i...

15. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the circumstances there favour poverty.  Either through government policies that prevent investment, or corruption and legal practice that terrorises business owners, or even that people choose ...

16. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
(Analysis/Analysis)

“Everybody knows that any war on poverty would start with a successful war on corruption. The grotesque disparity between the rich and poor is maintained and exacerbated by uncontrolled greed at

17. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ements that act to counterbalance the power of the state (from newspapers, to NGOs, to independent judiciary, corruption investigators, and police). Everything else must be bought and sold otherwise ...

18. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hers. South Africa would do well to learn that lesson now before frustration over unemployment and government corruption undermines the very democratic institutions that so many fought for, for so lon...

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

... what you’re given.  Soviet states ran very well; if you didn’t mind poverty, shortages, and corruption. All of these new charitable foundations, started by entrepreneurs, rely on th...

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

...ed by police arriving to take their chief to safety and ensure that no-one testifies against him. As in major corruption cases, if those at the top are held to significantly lower standards than the r...

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

...% unemployment then the answer must surely be finance.  This short-sighted approach can sew the seeds of corruption. Where there is a great deal of trade, finance moves in to fund new business i...

22. Responsibility Reputation Risk - a conference on corporate social investment
(Events/Events)

...e.  Winfrey donated $1.14-million to Ithuteng. These cases are certainly exceptions, however, even if no corruption exists there is little to suggest that development organisations are not squand...

23. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...nvestments" differ from the sorts of returns that private companies look for in their business dealings. Corruption and mismanagement of fund leads to a diminishment of the funds themselves, as w...