whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...nt and unions has been unequivocal. Everyone from the minister of health, "The 2008 private hospital tariffs do not reflect a spirit of working towards a national health system that provides rea...

2. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
(Analysis/Analysis)

...why we didn't need the extra schools or hospitals. The latest on this is that government is to reduce tariffs on products needed for its R 400 billion infrastructure development programme. The p...

3. Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...how they stack up against each other. Cell phone companies have a clear strategy as far as their contract tariffs are concerned: sew confusion as widely as is humanly possible. Ensure that it is impo...

4. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rference designed to put locals out of work. Politicians enjoy nationalism and respond by increasing trade tariffs to exclude the imports. This destroys the viability of foreign firms and increases th...

5. No matter how hard you try bad environments lead to bad results
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lso have to pay these duties, severely reducing the scope of their reach.  When Uganda dropped import tariffs to 5% the price plummeted to $ 3.50 per net and malaria levels plunged. As in peace-...

6. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rovide micronutrients to reduce malnutrition and hunger Goal 3: liberalise trade by reducing subsidies and tariffs Goal 4: control the spread of malaria Goal 5: development of new, low-cost, agricultu...