whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

... a mature black lead government >Many of the wealthiest people and surely the newly wealthy are black >Crime is not confined to next to the squatter camp >The last tree paragraphs are just unrelate...

2.
(Comments)

...mics of the crack trade in Detroit. It is this informal power struggle that seems a hotbed for dangerous crime to me and, if the structures I describe are in existence, would justify the active polici...

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

... slow. Meanwhile, a government that has lost track of critical infrastructure, given up on dealing with crime, but continues to pay for Jacob Zuma's trial and the health minister's booze, has...

4. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
(Analysis/Analysis)

... into the economy and the current regime is only interested in preventing future judgement of their past crimes. This kind of reaction was to be expected and it is hoped that Zimbabweans will vote a...

5. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ested for currency hoarding. In Zimbabwe, possession of "too much" of your own money is now a crime. Welcome to the world's fastest shrinking economy where the currency degrades in valu...

6. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e new roads and sparkling stadiums overwhelming nearby buildings and clearly very expensive. They will (crime aside) hopefully have a very nice time. All starry-eyed they may pull out their chequebo...

7. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ainst free-markets at their word. Over 1 300 business owners have been arrested across Zimbabwe. Their crime? Raising prices. For the past decade Robert Mugabe has accepted every tenet of the anti...

8. South Africa's two tiers
(Analysis/Analysis)

... taxed at the same rates, have to comply with the same labour rules, yet also have to put up with higher crime rates and poorer infrastructure. Why not turn townships into Special Economic Zones?&quo...

9. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...the US doesn't come close. No, this is Liberia under Charles Taylor, about to stand trial for these crimes at The International Criminal Court in The Hague. The reason he's going there at all...

10. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d part.  The business rules in both are the same, but the costs are not.  "Poverty breeds crime," according to Amartya Sen, one of the world's foremost economists.  And, i...

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

...me Obasanjo began the second phase of his machinations. The government appointed Financial and Economic Crimes Commission declared that they would publish a list of public figures guilty of corruptio...

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

...oing anything they can to try and earn a living.  When they can’t earn a living, some turn to crime. But the refined, rarefied noses of those with nice jobs rebels at the sight of poor peop...

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

...beki, has once again chosen to racialise a debate he is uncomfortable discussing directly; this time on crime. The history of South Africa is not of black versus white.  There were plenty of wh...

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

... totally electronic.  This starts having a significant impact. The anonymity of cash has supported crime and corruption.  Once it becomes possible to track the flow of money it becomes a lo...

15. A story of an African Orphan
(Analysis/Analysis)

...mmunity that the children housed in such institutions are better off, since they do not have to face the crime and squalor beyond the orphanage fences. This feeling was very strongly expressed recen...