whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
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...e 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. Rich people make mo...

2.
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...istribute textbooks as well. Having the success of the enterprise revolve around the often corrupt and failed governments is a real Achilles heal. However, I do believe that the usage of the d...

3. Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
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Politics isn't only about driving around in bling-tastic German motor cars and eating canapés at functions. Poor political decisions are not simply absorbed by a pliant and pliable public.

4. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
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...asing economic value. Government has promised a service – quality education and health – and failed to deliver on its promise. The resulting skills shortage and illness leads to reduced ...

5. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
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"They were working with us and we believed they were comrades and were standing by their leader. We did not know that they were standing with him during the day and at night they were working wit

6. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...idence that aid boosts growth, then handing out more money makes little sense," they conclude. In a failed state, such as Nigeria or Sierra Leone or Myanmar or Zimbabwe, there is a clear governm...

7. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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...reaming in to South Africa numbers around 3 000 per day. I did say, however, that Zimbabwe is already a failed state. This truth makes any future intervention into Zimbabwe extremely difficult. U...

8. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
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...and the only real trade takes place in the informal market – now 80% of the economy. The measure of failed states By every measure of the term, Zimbabwe is a failed state. The only party tric...

9. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
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...l run out the door and be sold at their real value on the informal market further undermining his state. Failed states are less likely to experience catastrophic collapse if they have a large diaspor...

10. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

....  All of this tells African governments that they need not be responsible for the outcomes of their failed economic and political experiments; the rest of the world will feel sorry for them and ...

11. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
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...alified at a college the HR scrutineer has never heard of, the CV is binned. The nature of education has failed to keep up with the increasing diversity of society.  Educational institutes open ...

12. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
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...ative new mechanisms to improve standards.  The matric results indicated a number of ((school))s who failed to pass any graduates at all. The current system results in perverse incentives where t...

13. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

Universal provision of formative education is considered a basic right in our constitution.  The standard approach, followed by virtually every government in the world, is that they should build

14. "Madiba's children" failed by their government
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...uced by the state in 1995.  The system was declared as the saviour of modern education.  It has failed, and failed spectacularly. It is no surprise that the number of private schools in Sout...