whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nal development. South Africa, as the only operating economy in the region (discounting both Botswana and Namibia as being microscopically small), has embarked on a very distinctive experiment. Here...

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

... Electricity, and its ails, have been discussed to death; but consider the knock-on impact to industry in Namibia, Mozambique and Botswana – countries that were hoping to grow their economies a...

3. Namibia
(Emerging Markets/Southern Africa)

  Poorest 20%: Market Opportunity: potential for social and economic mobility, as well as the prospects for engaging the poorest 20% as a direct market Productivity + Cost of Workforce: politics

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

...r to the SA rand in the hopes of stabilising the currency. South Africa already has a currency union with Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland where the rand is also the local currency. These three countr...

5. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d it wasn't that pleasant. Lawyers were murdered. Opposition activists dropped out of helicopters in Namibia. This is what a police state does. "By embarrassing the government so often we...

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

In 1993 I was travelling in the Caprivi Strip in northern Namibia.  The long civil war in Angola was drawing to a close and the northern border of Namibia was safe to travel in once more.  T