whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Prediction Markets for the Poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...overnments try through direct subsidies). You can buy a house, a car, land, a factory, better roads, public transport, infrastructure, security, courts, and, well, a lot of things. But there is no s...

2. How to cross a river...
(Analysis/Analysis)

... living up and along the Tugela River. According to Nonkululeko Mbatha, spokesperson for the Department of Transport, there are some 250 schools that need bridges to be built across rivers around th...

3. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

... as they work to convince local distributors to order sufficient products to cover the incredible expense of transporting the goods in the first place. Exporting from a country that still has exchang...

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

...ortunities, has recently completed research into the informal sector in Harare and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. The transport sector consists of both state-supported parastatals, and the official and unoffic...

5. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r are a market not worth pursuing. And so the poor are left paying more for services received by the rich. Transport costs are higher, food variety is poorer and significantly more expensive. Even ...

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

...bsp; The South African government has quite a list:  fuel, electricity, education, telecommunications, transport, and information (amongst others). Sure, there are private petrol, education, tr...

7. The carnage on South Africa's roads
(Analysis/Analysis)

As of this morning the Department of Transport has announced that 1 150 people have died so far in traffic accidents since the beginning of the holiday season two weeks ago.  The festive season a

8. Ithala and The Corruption Of Development
(Analysis/Analysis)

... programme. Her partners in this venture were Pretty Mbanjwa and Ntombi Shabalala - the wives of the head of transport, Dr Kwazi Mbanjwa, and head of treasury, Sipho Shabalala.” In response to ...