whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...can nations are watching, with distress, as their local manufacturing capacity collapses against the cheap imports. Earlier this year Zambians rioted at a Chinese mine prompting political demands to ...

2. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
(Analysis/Analysis)

...irearm with murder, because they have the tool to commit it. South Africa is also concerned about Chinese imports undermining our manufacturing. Union leaders have frequently called for a ban on Chi...

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

... it protects the local industry from unfair competition and saves jobs. We can argue about this where the imports compete with goods manufactured here, but it is a particularly stupid argument where ...

4. South Africa's two tiers
(Analysis/Analysis)

... see their products displaced by those who don't, the informal sector is filled with unbranded Chinese imports. I asked Trevor Manuel, "Why doesn't government just admit that there are t...

5. Getting Home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ven years. A shortage of foreign currency has dramatically reduced the state's ability to pay for fuel imports. The official price is Z$ 300 per litre but parallel market fuel prices were Z$ 100 ...

6. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sp; the US sets unrealistically high labour conditions on the Mexican government in order to prevent cheap imports disrupting US manufacturing; then the US compounds it by preventing Mexican workers e...

7. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

... This increases the cost of local manufactures and decreases the competitiveness of these products against imports.  The companies who have been affected promptly declare that the imported produc...

8. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

In 1993 France instituted the European Banana Regime placing quotas on banana imports from outside of their trade preference agreements with Europe's old colonial trading partners, the African, Ca

9. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...efits.  We must insist that they adopt our work practices, plus, we think that an excise tax on cheap imports would be a good idea.” Perhaps they too have a vibrant development sector.&nbs...

10. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...al benefits. We must insist that they adopt our work practices, plus, we think that an excise tax on cheap imports would be a good idea.” Perhaps they too have a vibrant development sector. Stud...