whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...es reasonable and affordable access to all South Africans." To union representatives who complain that hospitals profit from people's illness. Firstly, the promises of the state are not the...

2. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e for the replacement of her own ailing liver, she checked herself into a private clinic and abandoned state hospitals. If even someone like the health minister can calculate the odds of where her be...

3. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d on the premise that not having a job is sufficient reason to get one. There are 33,000 vacancies in state hospitals. Government administrators have thousands more unfilled positions. And this is ...

4. The Miracle of Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rices were too high and fixed them. Marginal pharmacies went out of business, new investment dried up. New hospitals are not being built because the ministry has decided to issue a moratorium on new...

5. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t; to explain precisely why the cost overruns were necessary and why we didn't need the extra schools or hospitals. The latest on this is that government is to reduce tariffs on products needed f...

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

...nterior.  And no-one is declaring that poverty in Africa is a result of a lack of MRI scanners at their hospitals; no matter how much this sophisticated product would improve their diagnostic cap...

7. World Cup 2010 asks for big sacrifices from the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...quo; equates with expensive stadiums the likes of which the world has never seen. The BBC reports that two hospitals in the Northern Cape have been delayed as the money required has been transferred...