whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
(Analysis/Analysis)

...fled into the arms of the west, happy to get away from the tyranny and oppression, the Russians upped their violence. In 1994, Russia invaded Chechnya. Over the next 15 years, Russia obliterated the...

2. No way out; ducking the Eskom bullet
(Analysis/Analysis)

In the smouldering aftermath of the violence of the past few weeks, politicians and apologists are looking for excuses and reasons. The structure of the economy is being blamed and the debate about t

3. Xenophobia and the end of the African Renaissance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s possible – was to call for a commission to be set up to investigate the causes of the turmoil. The violence is spreading. The same police who usually hassle African economic migrants for bri...

4. Simba the Saviour?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...#39;s not going to lead them to the meadows. The country needs a leader who can do more than just threaten violence, call for election boycotts and urge a hungry population to stay away from their jo...

5. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

... it is $ 6 to $ 8 in India. The government can offer nothing to De Beers except to withdraw their offer of violence towards the company if they comply. De Beers has made a counter-offer: if the gov...

6. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...attempt to regain that high ground. Never so asymmetric again The developing world, filled with coups and violence and chaos, offers a glimpse into the heroic past of newspapers. Where journalists k...

7. What comes after Capitalism?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...es we need a flavour of capitalism to allow those who don't know each other to trust and interact. The violence and vociferousness of anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist protestors gathered in...

8. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
(Analysis/Analysis)

...m. "The election was not stolen on election day," says Kukah. "Box stuffing, intimidation, violence, voter roll fraud, killings ... these are all symptoms. The election was stolen ri...

9. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

... grubby, brutal and tragic.  It destroys hope and opportunity.  It degrades the self and leads to violence and crime.  This is not about race, it is about people. On this Human Rights ...

10. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
(Analysis/Analysis)

... diplomat, “You guys come here and don’t recognise that this is Africa.  You have to fight violence with violence, otherwise they’ll kill you.” The scene is from the film...

11. Mama Jackie - the "Angel of Soweto" - assaults a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...pporters into the fray.  Fifty women and children from the Trust were arrested and charged with public violence when they attacked the police who had arrived to arrest Maarohanye for the kidnappi...

12. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...lop a trade platform with them. Perhaps they would have had a similar development path to our own; full of violence and incident in the beginning and then a gradual realisation that trade between mut...

13. The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
(Analysis/Analysis)

In 1964 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was imprisoned for life by the then Apartheid government in South Africa.  They moved rapidly to disband democracy movements in that country and imprison all the

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

((George W Bush)) has been mighty surprised by the tenacity and persistence of the instability and violence in ((Iraq)).  Since 1958 Iraqis have been ruled by a series of tyrants culminating in t

15. Responsibility Reputation Risk - a conference on corporate social investment
(Events/Events)

...d by their link to Jackie Maarohanye's Ithuteng Trust, recently accused of fraud, kidnapping and public violence.  Winfrey donated $1.14-million to Ithuteng. These cases are certainly excepti...

16. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

... offer to become trade partners. Perhaps they would have had a similar development path to our own; full of violence and incident in the beginning and then a gradual realisation that trade between mut...