whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Government and Business, Panic and Rescue
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n they have squandered on South African Airways since 2004. The government isn’t subsidising SAA’s incompetence, they’re rescuing them from a difficult market! A person who is dro...

2. Zimbabwe's Hope Deterred
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y retract from this previous position? Tsvangirai has previously threatened to rid the army and police force of incompetence. Both the head of the army, General Constantine Chiwenga, and the head of t...

3. Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
(Analysis/Analysis)

If I'd had an extra week in Mozambique I would have travelled from Lichinga, in the north-west, to Ilha de Mozambique, directly east. However, the 300 km journey to Cuamba takes 10 hours and taxi

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

... go directly to aid agencies. After experiences of duplication and astonishing corruption, along with outright incompetence, major aid donors decided that they would only work from government to gove...

5. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n jail for profiting on the deal and it is only a matter of time before Zuma is also to stand trial. Zuma's incompetence for public office goes even further.  During a rape trial (which charg...

6. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a good national cricket side. Where businesses are treated in similar fashion, similar corruption, misrule and incompetence prevails.  There is one electricity provider in South Africa, the stat...

7. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

... it for themselves. Populist governments in poor countries have so degraded their economies - through neglect, incompetence, or outright corruption - that homegrown entrepreneurs and innovators have ...

8. Responsibility Reputation Risk - a conference on corporate social investment
(Events/Events)

...onomy, it is only a matter of time before a major corporation is embarrassed by association with corruption and incompetence at a large charity. “Responsibility, Reputation, and Risk” is a...