whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...subsidy. Price provides feedback. If the petrol price rises then we try to drive less. If there are water shortages then higher prices punish those of us who waste. Eskom, despite terrible electri...

2. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lting skills shortage and illness leads to reduced economic growth, limited production capacity, and product shortages. This mismatch between outcomes and promises is inflationary. The less the sta...

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

...l is another reason that energy demand has outstripped supply. The result, as we all experience, is regular shortages. ...

4. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

...p the last of it as quickly as possible before anyone else did. Modern free markets have a solution to such shortages. The price goes up. Medieval commons had no such mechanism. Everyone owned the...

5. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...enance and improvement of their capacity (creating new jobs along the way) don't. This leads to product shortages and further producer inflation at the factory gates. The companies already inves...

6. Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...gone into empowerment.” He pointed out that rising prices at the till have a lot to do with production shortages.  Companies should have been building new plants and factories to take advan...

7. Getting Home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ome from work in Harare will have doubled. Zimbabwe, which continues to subsidise fuel prices, has had fuel shortages for the past seven years. A shortage of foreign currency has dramatically reduced...

8. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ve coastal migration that can leave Jo'burg shops severely overstocked and coastal stores grappling with shortages. "Our software can tell us the exact 24-hour window in which this migration...

9. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
(Analysis/Analysis)

...squo;t only that many of the jobs are only available for black South Africans.  There are also critical shortages of skilled people.  ASGiSA – the government’s accelerated skills...

10. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

Imagine a product so important that it requires special treatment.  Supply considered so essential by the state that it must be guaranteed through the creation of state-owned monopolies.  St

11. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...es managers around the world about their main concerns.  Some 62% worried about company-wide ((talent)) shortages.  More than two-thirds declared “attracting and retaining” talen...

12. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ptions include a few countries in Africa, which have experienced a sharp increase in inflation owing to food shortages, currency depreciation and/or stronger pass-through of higher oil prices to produ...

13. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... you will take what you’re given.  Soviet states ran very well; if you didn’t mind poverty, shortages, and corruption. All of these new charitable foundations, started by entrepreneu...