whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

... biggest critique of capitalism is that it controls lives without giving us a say. Organisations like unions are a corrective. Mugabe is a dictator on his last legs, trying to shore up support....

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(Comments)

... We would like to invite you to join us and write an article on the website, perhaps \"The future of work/unions\" there or on anything you are passionate about... It is up to you, you choose the su...

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

... If there is anyone we should be angry with it is the state. Despite this, the tone from government and unions has been unequivocal. Everyone from the minister of health, "The 2008 private hos...

4. South Africa's two tiers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hips. For the truth is that the informal sector has little to worry from either government or the labour unions. Taxi ranks are filled with tiny stalls paying staff R 200 per month. Despite the ulu...

5. How every day on strike left civil servants permanently worse-off
(Analysis/Analysis)

Striking civil servants have, today, agreed on a wage increase with their boss, the South African Government. The 7.5% was the final offer tabled last week by government and rejected by COSATU, the Co

6. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

...en the Mbeki fraternity of economic rationalists and non-interventionists, and the populist fraternity of unions, communists and fellow travellers.  The Unions are now in the ascendancy after Mbe...

7. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
(Analysis/Analysis)

...of employees relative to the rights automatically accorded to the owners of businesses. The power of the unions coincided with a period of rapid industrial transition.  Workers were required to ...

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

...; Since then a great deal of effort has been put in by communists, socialists, new-economists and trades unions to exercise exactly that. Most recently, Cosatu's secretary in the Western Cape, T...

9. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... in the ((moral hazard)) situation where ((teachers)) get paid MORE when they do a worse job.  The ((unions)) encourage this situation.  The incentive that results is that bad schools get wo...

10. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ores of each of the different schools. That way parents can see which schools are better. Teachers’ Unions have become quite powerful and are extremely unhappy with these types of metrics and ch...