whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
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... out of the mire: stability, accountability, and respect for private ownership of one\'s capital (be that labour, land or products)\" valid point, but it is unreasonable to use that as an argument no...

2. The hazard of market dominance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rvice providers. And so we get bread price fixing, milk price fixing, and medication price fixing. Even labour union setting of wages is a form of price fixing. Sometimes price fixing is a result o...

3. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ia than it is to set up a factory here and manufacture them. Given the close relationship that organised labour has with the government, the strictness of labour legislation and the costs involved of...

4. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e their production without employing more people then it must mean that there is something wrong with the labour supply. One can discuss our historical legacy until we all go purple, it makes no diff...

5. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cially in terms of increasing money supply, our taxes on international trade and the inflexibility of our labour legislation are also all areas of concern. Why does a ranking like this matter? It de...

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

...ices around the world. It has also lead to a lot of groaning from blue-collar workers that cheap Chinese labour will put them out of work. Mattel has now admitted that they didn't check until af...

7. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...towards the wealth of society. "When you work in a modern factory, you are paid, not only for your labour, but for all the productive genius which has made that factory possible: for the work o...

8. Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ulging information to the media and defaming the Minister. Finally, and notwithstanding an order from the Labour Court to reinstate him, Tshishonga was charged with misconduct, and his suspension was ...

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

...tion has made the expense and learning-curve of joining the formal sector tougher. Minimum wage laws and labour compliance increase the costs of running a business. It can be debated endlessly as to...

10. What comes after Capitalism?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d find your own cures for any medical problems you may have there is going to be some form of division of labour. Once you have division of labour you automatically introduce trade as you bargain for...

11. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
(Analysis/Analysis)

...f South Africa, they're not farming at all. Poverty is exceptionally inefficient. Low wages, manual labour and limited education go hand-in-hand with poor performance and lousy product quality. ...

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

...ork in the rich people's factories, wash their cars, build their homes.  They are the determined labourers upon whom the growth of the rich depends. But it is a trade-off.  If the poor&#...

13. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... into the recent bill about funding of troops in Iraq additional clauses relating to minimum standards of labour in bilateral trade deals. Speaking for everyone who supports these sorts of minimum st...

14. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

... story is going and how it will appear," says O'Reilly. Google enjoys the fruits of other's labour, but none of the responsibility. They claim that they cannot be held accountable for in...

15. Have you paid your car guard today?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e letter writing and waving of forefingers. A simple symptom of poverty in any developing country is that labour, which is mobile, moves from areas where there are no jobs to other areas where there a...

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

...t of the mire: stability, accountability, and respect for private ownership of one's capital (be that labour, land or products). Since poor countries cannot afford Negroponte's Folly, foreign ...

17. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
(Analysis/Analysis)

...an and development organisations will go to avoid talking about business, or to businesses. International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavia speaking at the XIth African Regional ...

18. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
(Analysis/Analysis)

The labour union movement is more than 100 years old.  At its outset it sought to improve the lot of employees relative to the rights automatically accorded to the owners of businesses. The powe

19. What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
(Analysis/Analysis)

...people to expend effort developing land that may be taken away before they experience the rewards of that labour; as Zimbabwe does.  It is no good refusing to purchase agricultural produce from a...

20. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
(Analysis/Analysis)

...whelming business and financial power (such as Hong Kong, Taiwan or Singapore), a dynamic and industrious labour-force (Vietnam, Cambodia) – or some combination of these (the US)? In semi-natio...

21. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r the rich to have become rich because of exploitation of the poor.  The poor have nothing but their labour – and a large aspect of poverty is that the poor do not engage in productive work...

22. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ork to produce stuff that the rest of the world wants to buy.  The workers don't have any of the labour protections or safety rights expected in the developed world.  The Chinese - as a ...

23. Enterprise Development and Employment: Experiences in South Africa and South Eastern Europe
(Analysis/Analysis)

...entres and office support services, and tourism. These sectors were chosen for their relative reliance on labour, and also for the belief that South Africa has a comparative advantage in them. One of...

24. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...not making poverty history.  Well, how exactly do we do this? When businesses turn up to hire cheap labour in impoverished countries they are accused by civil society types of exploitation.&nbsp...

25. The Tyranny of Red Lights
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hen land is taken away and there is no ownership, when workers don't experience the products of their labours, when politicians are only allowed to express the party view - then there is no active...

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

...ments need to support dislocated workers and provide them with new opportunities. Improving education and labour market flexibility is a key part of the long-run solution." Without this, even sh...

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

...cess for its other manufactures.  Investment flooded into the country to take advantage of its cheap labour, low land prices and direct access to the EU.  The Irish diaspora also came home, ...

28. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...up with those preferences.  Businesses that can’t do so (such as businesses caught using child labour when it is no longer politically acceptable to do so) get left behind and shut down. B...

29. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...owever, in this scenario, an additional factor presents itself: Productivity + Cost of Workforce: the labour-force wants to work and is - relative to their skill level - a cost-effective work-forc...