whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...dfastly seems incapable of changing is Africa. The reason is because every bad idea that faux academics and political scientists come up with gets dumped here. Instead of sharing best practice, Afri...

2.
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... for everyone - so many are starving? Why do 20% of the world live in absolute poverty? As for starting a political party, you can\'t change society through parliament. Parliament is a management s...

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...h and powerful.\" I would ask: who elected you? If you\'re so convinced of your moral superiority form a political party, enunciate your vision and the steps required to get there, and put it to t...

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...re are plenty of alternatives to an economic system that concentrates the wealth among the few, and develops political systems to lock the majority out and refuse them any say on the economic decision...

5. Government and Business, Panic and Rescue
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the complexity, unlikely to ever offer a solution. At this stage of the crisis, despite all the noise and political posturing, no one seems to have any idea of how to ensure greater risk transparen...

6. Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the poor, partly because the rich have more money, and partly because one of the objectives of taxes is the politically tactile issue of “redistribution”. But taxes must be sensitively ...

7. Higher food prices are good for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...but try and imagine the despair that queuing for your daily ration of dry wheat and maize would cause. The political response to high food prices and the drama of public protests has been a tale of ...

8. Zimbabwe: The beginning, and ending, of the beginning
(Analysis/Analysis)

...eryone. Monday, 16 September 2008, arrived with a lot of expectations and hope for the future. Once bitter political rivals were about to become allies in government. The sight of Morgan Tsvangirai,...

9. After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...aders, as occasionally the only possessors of guns, often trade this asymmetry into a snatch at power during political uncertainty. Pakistan, Thailand, Burma and even tiny Fiji are all dominated by t...

10. The Revenge of the Markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

...as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody,” said James Carville, President Bill Clinton’s political advisor. The Russian stock exchange collapsed by 40% in response to Prime Minis...

11. Trade Liberalisation isn't only between Rich and Poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e country can significantly reduce the pain it feels by simply halting its own tariffs or subsidies. Sadly, political blocks of convenience have formed pitting the nominally rich world against the po...

12. The tragedy of Burma, should we help, how to help
(Analysis/Analysis)

Aung San Suu Kyi has been kept isolated and under military guard in Burma since she, and her political party, won their 1990 elections. She is currently the most famous political prisoner in the worl

13. Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
(Analysis/Analysis)

...politicians is this: be not so proud. Africa's recent burst of economic growth has had little to do with political genius and much to do with external conditions. Real growth will require politic...

14. The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
(Analysis/Analysis)

... to place taxes, and how to weight the different groups’ obligations, is the source of much debate and political intrigue. Consider: rich people spend a smaller proportion of their money on foo...

15. South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
(Analysis/Analysis)

... to bring down the entire Estonian Internet infrastructure; disabling the websites of government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks, and companies. But the Estonians are part of the EU....

16. Everything gets tested but political ideas, they become policy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...usiness ideas are subjected to the even more brutal peril of perpetual individual consumer choice. Untested political ideas ... become policy. The first time that grateful taxpayers get to react to ...

17. The errors of selection and confirmation bias
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s showing distinct signs of that instability. Should business analysts ignore this and pretend that current political and economic policy, along with good intentions by investors, will lead to jobs a...

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

...;t only about driving around in bling-tastic German motor cars and eating canapés at functions. Poor political decisions are not simply absorbed by a pliant and pliable public. They have cons...

19. When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e important one as to why governments shouldn't be allowed to change the rules of business to suite some political whim. It is autocratic, and it is theft. Fidel Castro and his generation didn&#...

20. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ed as prices have dropped. This has come about not because of state subsidies, protected industries or glib political five-year-plans, but because of frenetic competition, frenzied innovation and the...

21. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r credits to import the fabric they needed for their products. Some manufacturers didn't have the right political connections, didn't get quotas, had to stop manufacturing and retrench employ...

22. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...h Bongo won with 51.9 percent of the vote. He has won the preceding elections, amid accusations of an uneven political environment by the opposition. In 2003, restrictions to the limit of presidential...

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

... Cracks appear to be turning into crevices within the ruling party. Sitting in the doldrums of economic and political shambles, Zimbabweans have surrendered themselves to the fate of the upcoming ele...

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

...industries have promoted the conversion of corn-starch to sugar and, thence, to ethanol. The choice, mostly political, is for an incredibly inefficient way in which to produce biofuel. Monsanto, in ...

25. Simba the Saviour?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y deserved a shot at the throne before they moved into retirement homes. Makoni has always been considered a political novice by the older generation even though he has had the backing of Mugabe. H...

26. Zimbabwe
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

27. Zambia
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

28. Vietnam
(Emerging Markets/South-eastern Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

29. Venezuela
(Emerging Markets/South America)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

30. Uruguay
(Emerging Markets/South America)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

31. United States of America
(Emerging Markets/Northern America)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

32. United Kingdom
(Emerging Markets/Northern Europe)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

33. United Arab Emirates
(Emerging Markets/Western Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

34. Ukraine
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Europe)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

35. Uganda
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

36. Turkey
(Emerging Markets/Western Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

37. Tunisia
(Emerging Markets/Northern Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

38. Trinidad and Tobago
(Emerging Markets/Caribbean)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

39. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rofit first before the lives of the poor working class," Solly Phetoe, COSATU NW Provincial Secretary. Political and social leaders give the impression that businesses are evil geniuses able to ...

40. Togo
(Emerging Markets/Western Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

41. Thailand
(Emerging Markets/South-eastern Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

42. Tanzania
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

43. Taiwan
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

44. Syria
(Emerging Markets/Western Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

45. Switzerland
(Emerging Markets/Western Europe)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

46. Sweden
(Emerging Markets/Northern Europe)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

47. Sri Lanka
(Emerging Markets/South-central Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

48. Spain
(Emerging Markets/Southern Europe)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

49. South Korea
(Emerging Markets/Eastern Asia)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...

50. South Africa
(Emerging Markets/Southern Africa)

...st 20%: Quality of Life: the standard of living of the wealthiest, and the distribution of wealth beyond the political elite Governance + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from g...