whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...we economy for the Chinese 3.5 million of Zimbabwe's most educated and productive citizens are in exile and working in the UK and South Africa 4 million people need food aid; the average lif...

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

...nd a highly educated local population. There are also 3 million of their most talented people living in exile and wanting to go home. As soon as the political situation changes they will flock in. ...

3. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

... what prevents this instability. Remittances and Inflation There are 3.5 million Zimbabweans living in exile in South Africa and the UK. They all send money home as often as they can. Modern telec...

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

... and social networking; those from the developing world expressed their despair at bannings, torture and exile. The first frontier: liberation One Guinean journalist, with his French translator, wo...

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

...untry and into the cities.  The responses there were somewhat worse than here – debtors goal, exile to Australia, torture.  We reserve this behaviour for refugees from our neighbours f...

6. The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
(Analysis/Analysis)

...prison all their leaders.  The African National Congress (ANC) was banned and its leaders went into exile, spawning an international movement to demand freedom in South Africa. The ANC regularly ...