whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...h, but with fewer jobs. Business owners will make a similar choice once the ANC has completed their heated deliberations about who gets to "rule" the rest of us. If they don't fancy th...

2. Simba the Saviour?
(Analysis/Analysis)

For 28 years, the Zimbabwean ruling party, Zanu PF, has campaigned using the same old slogan, "We liberated this country." Thank you very much for your efforts, now liberate us by stepping

3. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

... those from the developing world expressed their despair at bannings, torture and exile. The first frontier: liberation One Guinean journalist, with his French translator, would join groups of peop...

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

...the confusion with the following statement:  "There is no better forum for a practically oriented deliberation on decent jobs in Africa than a meeting at which the major participants are gov...

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

...e most developing country politics - completely different from that experienced in the developed world.  Liberation politics prevail.  The political victor is a fait accompli; in this case -...

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

... Africa is not of black versus white.  There were plenty of whites who fought on the side of the various liberation movements, including the ANC.  There were plenty of blacks who supported N...