whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
(Analysis/Analysis)

...libility, always need a handy external scapegoat when internal policies result in high inflation, capital flight and increasing poverty. Hugo Chavez and the mullahs of Iran have the US, Robert Mugabe...

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

...h is to decampaign Makoni. Of late, Zanu PF has resorted to discrediting Makoni as an unfit candidate, flighting campaign adverts attacking Makoni's credentials, devoting full newspaper pages a...

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

...re is 3.8% and industry is 32%. Both sectors are in rapid decline, losing both jobs and investment. The flight is towards the services sector which now makes up some 68% of our economy. "The r...

4. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ights are under threat then investors and business owners withdraw their support. If they are capable of flight they will travel to other nations where they feel safer. If they are not they remove t...

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

...ir dance with disaster in the late 1990s by linking the peso to the US dollar. That resulted in currency flight and a shrinking economy. The peso was delinked in 2002. The South African government ...

6. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...only carrier a round-trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town used to cost over  $ 1 000 for the two-hour flight.  Hardly anyone flew and the two main cities in South Africa had very little inter...

7. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
(Static Content)

...tion controlled by narrow political elite Scenario 3: Migration leading to skills shortage and capital flight Scenario 4: Two nations in one country Variations The basket of emerging natio...