whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...s, card guards offer a service. The outrage over hawkers should be obvious: without control, hawkers cost jobs and damage the economy. They pay R0.00 to set up on a pavement outside a legitimate re...

2.
(Comments)

...g as they make it through rush-hour & clock in on time. I believe a bottom-up approach will be more (cost)effective. Get them while they\'re young....

3. No way out; ducking the Eskom bullet
(Analysis/Analysis)

...itors and ask them for more money, or they can raise the prices on their existing products to cover the cost. Eskom would like to raise the price of electricity to cover their expansion. Normally, i...

4. Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
(Analysis/Analysis)

... South African economy, this would provide a significant jolt to South African manufacturing. With low costs in Zimbabwe, many manufacturers (especially for textiles) may choose to relocate to the ot...

5. Taxing the Future, Confusing the Present
(Analysis/Analysis)

...re paying more tax, not less. The reduction of the retirement age to 60 by 2010 introduces significant costs to taxpayers. Firstly, as a result of increasing life-expectancies (assuming that you don...

6. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e benefit to London of such infrastructure is incalculable and has been vastly exceeded by its original costs. At the same time, the miracle of London's current success depends on the continued f...

7. The hazard of market dominance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...perils. They can consolidate by buying up smaller competitors to get larger volumes, decrease relative costs, and so increase their profits. They can differentiate their products by going upmarket a...

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

...eir ability to pay salaries, do maintenance, or make future investments. They can choose to absorb the cost, by firing people or reducing capacity; or they can pass on the cost through higher bread p...

9. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

... online are free; from online email to blogging, photo albums, and vast amounts of games and software. Cost isn't what is keeping the world's poor from using the Internet. It is state owners...

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

...ailure of the market, all right. But not of a free one. Since companies couldn't pass on the real cost of electricity to consumers they were forced to run at a loss. Instead of having to bear h...

11. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ire nation in their hands, or is it about personal enrichment? Independence in Zimbabwe came at a high cost. Many lost their lives and homes. Parents never saw their children and many grew up as orph...

12. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Services businesses are "safer" than manufacturing. For instance, it is easier to import low-cost bicycles from India than it is to set up a factory here and manufacture them. Given the cl...

13. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant. At a cost of R 1.2 billion, and taking two years to build, the new PG Glass float line plant in Sprin...

14. Zimbabwe
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

15. Zambia
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

16. Vietnam
(Emerging Markets/South-eastern Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

17. Venezuela
(Emerging Markets/South America)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

18. Uruguay
(Emerging Markets/South America)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

19. United States of America
(Emerging Markets/Northern America)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

20. United Kingdom
(Emerging Markets/Northern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

21. United Arab Emirates
(Emerging Markets/Western Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

22. Ukraine
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

23. Uganda
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

24. Turkey
(Emerging Markets/Western Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

25. Tunisia
(Emerging Markets/Northern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

26. Trinidad and Tobago
(Emerging Markets/Caribbean)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

27. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
(Analysis/Analysis)

... invested in their own education and medication programs after giving up on the health department. The cost to business is reduced productivity and increased medical fees. Yet no business leaders ha...

28. Togo
(Emerging Markets/Western Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

29. Thailand
(Emerging Markets/South-eastern Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

30. Tanzania
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

31. Taiwan
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

32. Syria
(Emerging Markets/Western Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

33. Switzerland
(Emerging Markets/Western Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

34. Sweden
(Emerging Markets/Northern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

35. Sri Lanka
(Emerging Markets/South-central Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

36. Spain
(Emerging Markets/Southern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

37. South Korea
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

38. South Africa
(Emerging Markets/Southern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

39. Slovenia
(Emerging Markets/Southern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

40. Slovakia
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

41. Singapore
(Emerging Markets/South-eastern Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

42. Sierra Leone
(Emerging Markets/Western Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

43. Serbia
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

44. Senegal
(Emerging Markets/Western Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

45. Rwanda
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

46. Russia
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

47. Romania
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

48. Portugal
(Emerging Markets/Southern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

49. Poland
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...

50. Philippines
(Emerging Markets/South-eastern Asia)

...nomic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics and legislation aside, the efficiency and determination of the workf...