whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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I\'m no expert, but I would imagine the resistance to land ownership is due to entrenched models of wealth/power distribution by those already in power. If so, it makes the resulting poverty doubly t

2.
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...e 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 not to do th...

3.
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...lism and morality plays. The madness must be stopped. And that\'s why I\'m here, and you\'re in Scotland....

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...ng recently travelled through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Angola, declared that there is more agricultural land in these three countries than is currently under plough in the whole of the rest of the wor...

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...ownership\\\" to those that exist in the formal economy. By this I mean that they are ruled over by \\\"landlords\\\" who dictate the nature of much of their working environment and ultimately levy si...

6. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
(Analysis/Analysis)

... that the private sector hasn't shouldered some of the load. As a clearly incensed Dr Richard Friedland, CEO of Netcare, declared during the recent witch-hunt – apologies, conference &ndash...

7. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi have been dragged into the fray. Fuel supplies that must come in via the land route through Kenya have been disrupted. Refugees are squabbling on their borders. And th...

8. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
(Analysis/Analysis)

...their leader for 30 pieces of silver." So says Didymus Mutasa, minister of state security, and of lands (Land Reform and Resettlement), when asked for his reaction to one of the Zimbabwean gover...

9. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nment's decision to not include maize as feedstock for biofuels will hurt farmers and undermine the land reform process. Subsidies are overt protectionism for incumbents. It is spurious – ...

10. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

... a country where you have no local representation. Finding customers to buy your products in a foreign land takes a lot of time and energy. Salespeople have to fly to trade-shows, introduce themselv...

11. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

During the 15th and 16th centuries in England, starvation in the countryside was widespread. Subsistence farmers grazed their sheep and cows on commonly held grazing land. Herds intermingled, livest

12. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
(Analysis/Analysis)

...quick "cuppa". In the UK, the biggest recorded power surge ever was 2,800 megawatts after England's 1990 World Cup penalty shoot-out against Germany. Individual production is hardly ef...

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

...oduction nor full employment. South Africa is tangled somewhere in between; stranded in a no-man's-land where no-one is particularly happy. What led us here? How have we achieved economic growt...

14. Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
(Analysis/Analysis)

The land that peasant farmers, or shack-dwellers, live on is frequently either public land, or land that vests in a tribal chief. The residents act to improve that land in some form, either by farmin

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

... or US$ 31 billion, went to Africa. The continent with 14% of the world's population and 23% of its land is worth only 2% of its economy. The entire value of African companies as US$ 800 billion ...

16. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ode, a property economist, a report has been sent to government on the development of policy on foreign land ownership. Suggestions range from a total moratorium on the sale of all land to foreigners...

17. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...quot;I am deeply troubled by the incredible amount of consolidation occurring across the American media landscape. The power of the media is swiftly being limited to a few controlling hands, which pos...

18. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...on Zimbabwe is short of everything and produces virtually no food on some of the most productive farmland in the world 80% of the population depends on the informal sector for jobs and support ...

19. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
(Analysis/Analysis)

...the anti-globalist anti-free-market lobby. He nationalised large commercial farms and gave them to the landless poor. He printed cash and gave it to veterans and the rural destitute. He fixed price...

20. The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
(Analysis/Analysis)

...saster? Iran after an earthquake in Bam that levelled a city and buried half-a-million people? Or Thailand and Indonesia where you had such a fantastic experience two years ago while there on vacati...

21. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s out, in the Economist, that global cereal production tripled between 1950 and 2000, but the amount of land used increased by only 10%. Using traditional techniques such as crop rotation, compost and...

22. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...outh Africa has steep slopes and can only farm in short runs and patches," says Knox. The type of land means that we have the best possible situation to produce high-quality wines. Instead, thr...

23. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
(Analysis/Analysis)

... experienced by suburban Americans and Europeans. Suburbia. Soccer moms, endless commutes, housing flatlands, shopping malls, sterile sameness. It is from these monotonous neighbourhoods of conformi...

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

... and against. Civil society groups protested outside, each outdoing the next in plaintive cries and outlandish dress. Eventually the chairman spoke: "Ladies and gentlemen, a decision has been ...

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

...actors. The result of this in both Europe and the US has been that farms get by on less water and less land yet produce more food. Agricultural-subsidy addicted Europe has even started paying farmer...

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

...g violent and angry. South Africa is a microcosm.  Here it is played out within the borders of one land.  In other places it occurs between nations. Mexico and the US:  the US sets unre...

27. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ts are concerned. So, what is she all in a lather about now? "We recently came across a blog with slanderous comments about a famous rugby player, a respected reverend in the church and a promine...

28. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
(Analysis/Analysis)

...39;s Hand of God goal that allowed Argentina to win their 1986 quarter-final World Cup match against England. When Yar'Adua won he said, 'Don't blame me for winning, I didn't declare ...

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

...result in litigation, as the Independent has discovered. "We had a story about a paedophile in Ireland," says O'Reilly. "We carried the story on our website and followed the case. ...

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

...empers in a huff. This type of conflict is normal for a country in transition.  Industrialising England of Charles Dickens’ time held the same horrors for the rich as improved farming metho...

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

...ire: 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 donors mus...

32. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

... developed the concept of the Demonstration cluster support centre. With support from the Durban Metro, land was allocated near a clinic in Margate and a set of houses and a central medical facility b...

33. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...jobs were going to lower-cost countries and academic brains to America.” This was about 1970s England.  And they are comparing it to the current situation in France.  Yet it is as pit...

34. Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rned about.  Now it is about whether or not humans caused it and how we should be punished. Chris Landsea, previously a leading scientist at the IPCC, resigned and publicly expressed his distast...

35. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lence, otherwise they’ll kill you.” The scene is from the film “The Last King of Scotland” in which we view the atrocities of the Ugandan regime led by Idi Amin through the le...

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

...hey are encouraged to help themselves. It is no good destroying agriculture through poorly thought out land redistribution policies, and then expecting people to expend effort developing land that ma...

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

...t comes to absolute numbers can still shine by virtue of the scale of their business interests. Switzerland, with a population just over 7 million, is home to Nestle, UBS and Credit Suisse, and has a...

38. Cry, The Beloved Country
(Analysis/Analysis)

... river, great hill after great hill; and beyond and behind them, the mountains of Ingeli and East Griqualand. The grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. It holds the rain and the mist, an...

39. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a legal right that goes against standard market practice and stealing something directly. Consider the land “reform” process in Zimbabwe.  The government identified that poverty was ...

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

...lopment sector.  Students and their equivalent of hippies turn up all over the show.  Rural Poland plays host to thousands of eccentric aliens who enjoy the climate and set up schools where ...

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

...any opt out. If individuals have no ability to actively engage, then they don't bother.  When land is taken away and there is no ownership, when workers don't experience the products of ...

42. May I have the bill, please? A lesson in wilful ignorance ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...te products.  It is an opportunity for business owners to listen and remain a part of the economic landscape of winners. And, when they do get round to testing those waiters, I hope it involves ...

43. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o;t know to stop being poor. In October 2006, at an international conference in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, the representatives of 24 countries signed a Statement of Ethical Principles in ((Fundra...

44. Is the ownership of property at odds with the needs of the poor?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...at is Property?” famously declared, “Property is theft.” "The peasant who hires land, the manufacturer who borrows capital, the tax-payer who pays tolls, duties, patent and lic...

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

...ophisticated than those where internal strife resulted in mass ((emigration)) (anywhere in Africa). Ireland was an economic and social mess up until it joined the EU in 1973.  Membership gave i...

46. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...g good rains and the soil there is so fertile and rich it would make any farmer weep with joy. Yet, no land was under plough.  Instead the locals were queuing patiently outside UN feeding statio...

47. A revitalised UN may improve development in Africa
(Analysis/Analysis)

...bases his claim on soil analysis which demonstrates that less than 20% of some of the best agricultural land in the world is currently under plough.  And all this land lies in a broad swathe acro...

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

...vibrant development sector. Students and their equivalent of hippies turn up all over the show. Rural Poland plays host to thousands of eccentric aliens who enjoy the climate and set up schools where ...

49. Lessons in sustainable development
(Analysis/Analysis)

Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, has long been a pet trophy for both environmentalists and anti-capitalists. This remote island is denuded of vegetation and features artefacts pointing to a rich c

50. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...c, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Tu...