whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Podcast: China's expansion in Africa offers risk and opportunities
(Podcasts/Emerging Market Risk)

China is rapidly becoming Africa's largest investor.  They require little in the way of good governance and are aggressively creating new infrastructure in their drive to secure resources for

2. Searching for objective measures of value
(Analysis/Analysis)

...l credit imbalance, has lead to US dollar weakness.  Add to that a strengthening oil price, stock market instability, and frothiness in global property markets and it is no wonder that investor...

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

...e world's oil supply and more metals and minerals than you can shake a pointed stick at. After decades of instability, warfare, or plain disregard for economic rights the most capable Africans ha...

4. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

... well. A Whythawk Ratings analyst recently spent time in Zimbabwe and can offer insight on what prevents this instability. Remittances and Inflation There are 3.5 million Zimbabweans living in exil...

5. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...critical skills are available to support their economies.  Most, with their inept governments and chronic instability, are doing a phenomenal job of exporting their best and brightest to other co...

6. No matter how hard you try bad environments lead to bad results
(Analysis/Analysis)

((George W Bush)) has been mighty surprised by the tenacity and persistence of the instability and violence in ((Iraq)).  Since 1958 Iraqis have been ruled by a series of tyrants culminating in t

7. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...ness is that growth is likely to be resource-based and reliant on foreign innovation and investment. Inherent instability arises from the tension between those hoping to secure opportunities within t...