whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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Speaking in terms of individual freedom and a globalized economy, migration for work is actually helpful, since it matches talent and needs. But brain drain is a major cause of lack of progress in dev

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...et economics. It isn\'t free-market capitalism that is the problem. It is the lack of more fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, freedom of association, equality before the law, respect for...

3. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
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...rnet users, 43% of Europeans, but only 4.7% of Africans. In 1998 the US Government passed the Internet Tax Freedom Act and deliberately chose not to interfere. All the best minds coming out of Stanfo...

4. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
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... their companies with the "people". Last week the Free Market Foundation released the Economic Freedom of the World report for 2007. "There is a strong correlation between economic f...

5. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
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...and Walter Sisulu, was another GB. George Bizos. Speaking at the launch of his new book, "Odyssey to Freedom", Bizos was "interrogated" by two other greats of the freedom struggle...

6. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
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... had the ability to put that suffering into context and voice the desires of the people for liberation and freedom. The developed world has no need for this anymore. The people have the tools for thi...

7. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
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...ity as President of WAN - in the Kremlin Palace and addressed President Putin on the thorny issue of press freedom in Russia. The year before, it was before President Roh in South Korea. Similarly &nd...

8. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
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...r this kind of sexual predation and deviance against our young children is inexcusable.  The right to freedom of expression is not absolute." Any tool that allows communication allows all c...

9. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
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...ling that Internet media companies, which spend so much time complaining that George W Bush is undermining freedom and democracy, is doing its own bit to undermine freedom and democracy. Yahoo hands o...

10. Government to gag South African bloggers?
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...t unanimous in pointing out that the bill is unconstitutional, unworkable, and would severely damage media freedom ... News media has always, even under the apartheid government, had an exemption from...

11. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
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... articles are in English. Wales is in South Africa as part of University of the Western Cape's Digital Freedom Expo.  The university has invited a range of speakers from across the open-sourc...

12. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
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...ip examples of what he means during his presentation at the University of the Western Cape’s Digital Freedom Expo he struck hard and vicious and deep. Jesus Christ sits on a rock, in his toga wi...

13. Jimmy Wales, Digital Freedom South Africa: What would you ask him?
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...Thursday, 19th April, Jimmy Wales - of Wikimedia fame - will be in South Africa to present at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Says Professor Derek Keats of UWC,...

14. Zimbabwe at the Security Council; South Africa's unequivocal support
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...he incontinence that is Iraq) it is essential that loud protest be heard from all responsible believers in freedom and representative democracies. ...

15. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
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...n their home countries preach against the situation they are experiencing – confusing the chaos with freedom – then they shout back, as Garrigan does, “You can’t hold this coun...

16. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
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...ns the thing that centralised, monopolised states demand:  their control of access to information and freedom of communication. Wireless broadband communication allows for a wide range of new te...

17. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
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...d prevail:  the US with their belief in individual expression and the power of the dynamic tension of freedom of expression and economic competition; or the USSR with their belief in state-direct...

18. The Tyranny of Red Lights
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...; It isn’t real;  it is simply an agreement for the convenience of the many.  We limit our freedom to act in exchange for the stability of a safe traffic experience. Laws are like tha...

19. The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
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...al Congress (ANC) was banned and its leaders went into exile, spawning an international movement to demand freedom in South Africa. The ANC regularly called for sovereign nations to intercede in the ...

20. Is the ownership of property at odds with the needs of the poor?
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...ets achieve? The most important inalienable property that you own is your life.  Your liberty is the freedom to use your life.  No other person, or group of people, may own you.  Neith...

21. Henry Grady Weaver
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...he major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improv...

22. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
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...uevara, then the teachings of Che Guevara you shall have. People may fight for the cause of socialism, or freedom, or democracy but – while they’re out fighting – someone is going t...