whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...thout debate, a critical unemployment problem. But the solution is not in creating meaningless jobs for the unskilled. It lies in appropriately skilling the unemployed so that they can take advantag...

2. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cations for trade restrictions and import penalties. The trade advantage that China and India have is their unskilled and low-wage population working in unsophisticated manufacturing and service busi...

3. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ese people and companies respond by offering competitive benefits. This happens even in markets filled with unskilled people. Chinese wages are rising dramatically as the population of unemployed ur...

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

... to have a certain degree of skill.  As machines became more complex to use, and more dangerous for the unskilled, it was harder for business owners simply to fire their staff.  Self organis...

5. "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

... in 2004. With a mandate to create one million jobs in five years, it has created 250 000 temporary jobs for unskilled workers who will, at the culmination of each public works project, emerge no more...

6. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r it was theirs or not.  Soon vast swathes of land was being reclaimed, often violently, and settled by unskilled peasants.  Government officials took advantage of the confusion to snatch th...

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

...the union movement. Yet, if you are unemployed and struggling to find a job in Africa, you are also probably unskilled.  If you are skilled – and especially if you have good technical ((ski...

8. The end of wild seafood and the myth of "free"
(Analysis/Analysis)

... skills required to work are rising rapidly so that the average factory no longer has place for a completely unskilled person. The barriers to stepping up and out of poverty are starting to rise.&nbsp...