whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...they certainly do have an abundance of centralised brutality and authority. I remember the story of the protester in Genoa. Given the number of police attacked and severely injured it is somewhat ...

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Actually the police in Europe shot a protestor dead in Genoa, many more have been badly wounded, and others have had long sentences. If capitalism is so great, and has all these wonderful \"solutio

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...ty out and refuse them any say on the economic decisions that affect their lives. If you think that the protestors have got nothing better to say than \"scrap capitalism\", then you\'re pretty igno...

4. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
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...oy-stores whether or not European safety-standards had been followed. In this the real ugly nature of the protests against China are seen. Imagine it differently. A few winemakers in South Africa h...

5. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
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...mportant, but it takes attention away from what developing nations can do for themselves. Wealthy nations protest that they have little interest in removing subsidies if they don't get a return i...

6. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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...ave taken note and followed their consumers. Newspapers around the world have suffered. And, despite the protests of politicians seeing their favourite mouthpieces undermined, newspapers have huddle...

7. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
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...in that their investments would be stolen; they'd be pulling out, not pushing in. And those self-same protestors at anti-globalisation gatherings have their pensions and lifesavings invested in t...

8. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
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...he term, Zimbabwe is a failed state. The only party trick that Zimbabwe appears to have avoided is street-protests regarding hyperinflation. Zimbabwe remains stubbornly stable. I have written on thi...

9. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
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...that would normally be used to exit the state has no release point and is channelled by their leaders into protests and animosity levelled at their enemies. In relatively open economies the scale of ...

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

... world – then you are truly alone. In the past few weeks we have seen rioting in Pakistan as people protested the knighting of Sir Salman Rushdie who once wrote a book that esoterically referre...

11. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
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...he rich and those of the poor been greater. The youngsters lighting fires in Germany at the G8 Summit to protest about globalisation and capitalism have little in common with the striking protestors...

12. What comes after Capitalism?
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The panel debated long and loud. Much argument both for and against. Civil society groups protested outside, each outdoing the next in plaintive cries and outlandish dress. Eventually the chairman

13. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
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...ous passes that all black South Africans had to carry. Anti-Apartheid campaigners singled out Polaroid for protest and consumer-action. Polaroid divested. Did it help to end apartheid? Probably not. ...

14. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
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...ve idea, particularly in the wake of the Iraq invasion.  Anyone who has watched Europeans turn out to protest in their hundreds of thousands about US aggression would imagine that Bush was their ...

15. Zimbabwe at the Security Council; South Africa's unequivocal support
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... difficulty intervene (lest they wind up mired in the incontinence that is Iraq) it is essential that loud protest be heard from all responsible believers in freedom and representative democracies. ...

16. The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
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... African state.  After the Sharpeville Massacre , in which 566 children were killed during a peaceful protest, the world chose to express their condemnation of the internal behaviour of a soverei...

17. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
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...gate at private / independent schools and the overall standard for the poorest students drops. With unions protesting that teachers may not be punished for poor performance and little incentive on the...