whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...ks in China) falls within countries that have little respect for individual rights, democracy or free-market economics. It isn\'t free-market capitalism that is the problem. It is the lack of more...

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Walton, economics is an evolving theory. I wouldn\'t go to Wikipedia for a current answer. Most of what I\'m discussing is price theory; in which, should politicians choose to do so, they can price

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... street vendors have a far stronger claim to in my view. Additionally I would like to know more about the economics of either of these practices. I have long suspected (though never proved) that bo...

4. Simba the Saviour?
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... the University of Lords in the UK, Dr Makoni is a highly educated man, with rich experience in the field of economics and business consulting. His work experience has been spread widely across the A...

5. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...d Arvind Subramanian, who left the IMF this year. "One of the most enduring and important questions in economics is whether foreign aid helps countries grow ... There is a moral imperative to th...

6. Everything is coming up Capitalism
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...tirely discredited. The word, that is, not the ideology. That has re-emerged. Now it is known as "new economics" or "anti-globalisation" or "people's economies". T...

7. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
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Anti-capitalist demonstrators around the world should be celebrating. Robert Mugabe's government has taken those against free-markets at their word. Over 1 300 business owners have been arrested

8. How every day on strike left civil servants permanently worse-off
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Striking civil servants have, today, agreed on a wage increase with their boss, the South African Government. The 7.5% was the final offer tabled last week by government and rejected by COSATU, the Co

9. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
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South Africa is a microcosm for all the world's greatest unresolved itches.  Here we have fair-skinned folk living in shiny new cities with first-rate infrastructure and access to all the be

10. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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You're going to despise me, so let's get that over and done with. It is winter in Cape Town. Temperatures plunge to the low single Celsius digits. Worse than that though is the hurtling, se

11. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
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I have had an ambivalent attitude to the One Laptop Per Child project ever since Nicholas Negroponte, stumped for an answer on the ultimate purpose of the computer, declared, "... there is no el

12. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
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...sure a result. Steven Levitt, in his wry Freakonomics, convincingly demonstrated – using nothing but economics – how sumo matches are regularly rigged.  Horse-racing, where horses a...

13. What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
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...nows what he got up to.  Scientists are recognised by their peers, not the public. Whenever science or economics have become populist we have seen cheating.  Scientists who release findings...

14. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
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...oment there is limited scrutiny placed on development organisations.  As William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University, remarks in his essay “Why doesn’t aid work?&r...

15. Our Analysts
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... Cape.  She is a recent graduate of the University of Cape Town, completing her Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Statistics in 2006. ...

16. Whythawk Podcast Downloads
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...ies, but there are also risks. Whythawk presents here a series of informal seminars and discussions on risk, economics, globalisation and the excitement of doing business in emerging markets. The seri...