whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...tality and authority. I remember the story of the protester in Genoa. Given the number of police attacked and severely injured it is somewhat surprising that only one protester got killed. Imagin...

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...t needs. The only problem is that if Oprah merely sponsored students, there wouldn\'t be any place to tack the plaque with her name on it....

3. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
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...ent aimed at the company becomes a punishment that society must bear. Conversely, it may not be as spectacular to penalise only the people who made the decision to collude, but it is more effective. ...

4. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...anufacturing and retrench employees. Quotas lead to opportunities for corruption as insiders trade contacts and cash for larger allocations. Money supply and loans are not controlled by quotas. You...

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

... compared to the private sector's 27,443. The Department of Health reports 101 million patient contacts in 2007, which implies around 25 patients per professional per day. No wonder doctors and ...

6. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
(Analysis/Analysis)

...late, Zanu PF has resorted to discrediting Makoni as an unfit candidate, flighting campaign adverts attacking Makoni's credentials, devoting full newspaper pages and banners, all but forgetting a...

7. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... as their money becomes worthless in their hands. Another way is to raise interest rates; the price attached to borrowing future money. Our Reserve Bank has raised interest rates by 4% over the past...

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

... Fisher Price and Barbie. The cause? Toys with paint containing too high a lead content and poorly attached magnets that could present a choking hazard to tiny tots. Mattel was quick to cast the b...

9. Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail. What makes this investment more remarkable is the tacit belief, emotionally expressed by members of the audience at a recent Graduate School of Bus...

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

...in addresses - new identities - for every single Web 2.0 ap. Yet I only need one email address to contact anyone via email anywhere in the world. Various initiatives (like Identity 2.0) aimed at re...

11. Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
(Analysis/Analysis)

... proved fruitless. The Minister, whose days in office were at this stage numbered, then launched an attack on Tshishonga on national television. Tshishonga filed a complaint of criminal defamation. T...

12. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ecovery but I do have sufficient faith in our independent Reserve Bank governor, Tito Mboweni, to give tacit support for such an initiative. The long-term result will be a Zimbabwean economy entirely...

13. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

...llapsed," said Whythawk. Zimbabwe, for all the posturing by Robert Mugabe - their increasingly detached tyrant - is a fairly open economy. Their people are used to processed goods imported from...

14. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
(Analysis/Analysis)

Evolutionary pressure is stimulated by great events. Cataclysms, in particular, let the strongest shine. South Africa has, for centuries, been the social equivalent of a violent tidal coast filled w

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

...orker's rights. A quick look at US trade policy indicates that US politicians (no doubt, with the tacit support of US citizens) prefer charity to opportunity. Both Democrats and Republicans whin...

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

...nd like a whiny school-girl. General Sani Abacha had recently died of what was being called a heart attack. The Nigerians laughed cheerfully at this. "No," said Sunny, "he had made t...

17. Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
(Analysis/Analysis)

..., when the products in question are cell-phone contracts it may be of interest to understand how they stack up against each other. Cell phone companies have a clear strategy as far as their contract ...

18. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ster rate than our economies can absorb.  It is therefore, critical that partnership is forged in tackling the specific needs of young people in this era of globalization, including human capacit...

19. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

... a box?  How do they keep control of the ownership of that music?  So they shut it out and attacked peer-to-peer network sites.  It wasn’t until the battle was lost that they agre...

20. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
(Analysis/Analysis)

...uild it around the worst-case scenario where we're scared to give people knives because they may attack each other.  We want to build around good people doing good things.  Wikipedia'...

21. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nformation on how Unlocking the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid can benefit your firm, please contact us to book a presentation. ...

22. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant B
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... Investment and Survival Rates: B Link to overview of ratings and scorecard definitions Profile Contact Details Contact Name:  Some Name Contact Number:  Some Number Service Offe...

23. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...Investment and Survival Rates: A Link to overview of ratings and scorecard definitions Profile Contact Details Contact Name: Some Name Contact Number: Some Number Service Offering Entrepr...

24. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage B
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

... Development Environment - Psychological development and environment: CCC   Profile Contact Details Name: Demonstration Name Telephone: Demonstration Number Service Offering ...

25. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

... Development Environment - Psychological development and environment: AA   Profile Contact Details Name: Some Name Telephone: Some Number Service Offering Cluster homes ...

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

...eaceful elections in 1994 as glibly as the United States discarded their support after the terrorist attack of September, 11.  A world that would have supported the US has seen them “go it ...

27. While no-one was watching
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...otions of those suffering from serious emotional neglect. It is difficult to maintain the necessary detachment that an analyst must have.  The children are lonely and very excited to see anyone ...

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

...sp; 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 kidnapping. Once again she embarr...

29. General Scorecard Overview and Summary
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...ctors discovered during the ratings process indicate that the issued rating may be affected; please contact us directly for discussion positive - we expect the rating outlook to change for the better ...

30. A story of an African Orphan
(Analysis/Analysis)

...till a stigma for children who are 'institutionalised', and this is compounded by the stigma attached to 'AIDS babies'. The ultimate goal of even these institutional orphanages is to p...

31. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
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... and not wait.  Large-scale corruption follows and soon there isn’t anything left to take. Tackling corruption requires investigation and incorrupt police and judiciary.  This can be ...

32. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
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...ntinued debate over racially motivated and discriminatory legislation has created a large number of obstacles to business efficiency.  Without that efficiency South Africa has virtually no hope o...

33. Enterprise Development and Employment: Experiences in South Africa and South Eastern Europe
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tive aims to eradicate unemployment in South Africa by focusing on three sectors; mainly bio-fuels, contact centres and office support services, and tourism. These sectors were chosen for their relati...

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

...g in the sky over New York.  Imagine that, having studied us briefly, a sentient race chose to contact the United Nations and offer to become trade partners. A sentient species that was focused ...

35. May I have the bill, please? A lesson in wilful ignorance ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...over increasing obesity has gone on for over a decade. The low grumble of clients is not a personal attack on the organisation.  It is the gentle murmur of consumers hungry to be part of the dev...

36. NOW UP: Western Cape Enterprise Development Ratings
(Events/Events)

...all the largest players in the enterprise development sector. If you wish to secure a trial, please contact us and we will send you a one-week login so that you may see what all the fuss is about.&nbs...

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

...ws were worth significantly less than fresh beef.  The reason was that marauding soldiers would attack farmers and kill them, then take their cows away.  No-one wanted to own a live cow for ...

38. Zackie Achmat, campaigner for HIV antiretrovirals, charged with genocide
(Analysis/Analysis)

It is as outrageous as it is hilarious.  ((Zackie Achmat)), HIV positive head of the Treatment Action Campaign and a tireless campaigner for universal access to HIV ((antriretroviral)) treatment

39. Enterprise - Ratings and Scorecard overview
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...ctors discovered during the ratings process indicate that the issued rating may be affected; please contact us directly for discussion positive - we expect the rating outlook to change for the better ...

40. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ve improved the livelihoods of millions of ((poverty|poor)) subsistence farmers by allowing them to contact buyers and learn what consumers want.  Daniel Mashva, a rural farmer in South Africa, ...

41. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cale for $ 100 per year per student? Anyone wanting to join us in developing this challenge please contact us. 1 Whythawk has not rated either organisation and so expresses no opinion on the effe...

42. "Madiba's children" failed by their government
(Analysis/Analysis)

...  The system was declared as the saviour of modern education.  It has failed, and failed spectacularly. It is no surprise that the number of private schools in South Africa is blossoming.&nb...

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

...t number of annual fatalities and South Africa's economic powerhouse, has recently enjoyed the spectacle of their own police chief, Robert McBride, rolling his car in a drunken accident.  Wit...

44. Guide To Volunteering
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...nal charities for whom you'd be proud to work. Quantify and qualify what you can offer Finally, contact your list of potential charities to asses their volunteer needs and determine if your skills...

45. Guide to Donating
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...he charity has a donor privacy policy whereby the organisation promises to never sell or trade your contact information Obtain Copies Of Its Financial Records The financial health of a charity is a s...

46. 10 My organisation isn't rated, how do I apply?
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

Please contact us with the details of your organisation. If we are currently rating your sector and region we will send you a ratings guideline and arrange for an appointment to conduct a site visit.

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

...overing in the sky over New York. Imagine that, having studied us briefly, a sentient race chose to contact the United Nations and offer to become trade partners. Perhaps they would have had a similar...

48. The Responsibility Gap
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...ich get richer, and the poor get poorer". Correlation is not causality. A person having a heart-attack may have eaten themselves to death. No-one is suggesting that the fit people running along t...

49. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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...only seen curves. Should you require additional interpretation - or regional analysis - then please contact us. The following sections provide additional guidance and analysis: Scenario 1: High-...

50. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
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... it closer to the world that they can imagine. Some people have the determination to overcome all obstacles and make the imaginary, real. Anyone who is prepared to turn dreams into reality, to lead...