whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...he hasn't been demanding reform at the IMF, he has been lecturing the US and Western Europe on their theft of valuable skilled people from our nation. Let's lay to rest this claim that skills...

2. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
(Analysis/Analysis)

...AT&T, another for Vodafone. Martin: The more credit cards you have, the more at risk you are for ID theft and fraud, but one of the downsides of the credit system is that "thin credit fi...

3. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...longside one of Cape Town's largest squatter camps has expressed outrage at the almost US 110 000 of theft they have put up with. Businesses hearing this tremble at the very idea of setting up in ...

4. Is the ownership of property at odds with the needs of the poor?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his book “What is Property?” famously declared, “Property is theft.” "The peasant who hires land, the manufacturer who borrows capital, the tax-...