whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...tion starved of good times. New ideas are needed to bring investors back into the economy and the current regime is only interested in preventing future judgement of their past crimes. This kind of ...

2. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
(Analysis/Analysis)

... It is a lesson few governments in Africa have cared to learn. Last week saw Robert Mugabe's thuggish regime claim ownership of Olivine, a large cooking-oil producer. Many governments believe tha...

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

...nceit. It is a piece of European and American cultural imperialism on such an epic scale that it reduces regime-change in Iraq to a dust-mote in a desert storm. It says, "You are helpless. You...

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

...rnational Criminal Court in The Hague. The reason he's going there at all is because of an Iraq-style regime-change effort by British and American forces. Sometimes it does work. The rioting and...

5. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rd of him, but Shi is the first casualty in new-media's complicity in yielding up its users to brutal regimes. Shi is currently serving a ten-year sentence for distributing Chinese state secrets....

6. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

In 1993 France instituted the European Banana Regime placing quotas on banana imports from outside of their trade preference agreements with Europe's old colonial trading partners, the African, Ca

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

...e 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 lens of a fictional character.  Without that remotenes...

8. The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
(Analysis/Analysis)

... "Voting this way, SA emerged looking comfortable with one of the world’s most brutal military regimes.  Whose side is SA on, anyway?" ...

9. The Responsibility Gap
(Analysis/Analysis)

... government and monarch who steal from them. That it is a brutal dictatorship is not the fault of the US. Regime change has not proven a successful stratagem and, unless Nepalese choose for themselves...