whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

Continued...Also... the quanity requirements seem to have been waived... As for... \"What is needed in impoverished nations is exactly the same thing as got Europe and the US out of the mire: stabilit

2.
(Comments)

...ountries with dictatorial governments is another question. But, without having some form of linked and assisted education program, the $ 100 laptop will have little use. The $ 20 3G cellphone, on ...

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

... wooden cross-spars between the two supports across your river. I provide this instruction as a means of assistance to the communities living up and along the Tugela River. According to Nonkululeko...

4. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...% of graduates go to their competitors. They spend money on Netcare 911 – an emergency service that assisted over 15,000 people in 2007 at a cost of R 20 million. Their corporate social respons...

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

...friend, and the matter went no further. But the Minister was unhappy. He called a meeting of the panel of assistant Masters responsible for approving liquidators, and asked why his friend had not been...

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

...e unable to reign in spending money donated by the outside world. The foreign currency flood is not just assisting people to survive, it is also acting to undermine the central state. The currency ...

7. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
(Analysis/Analysis)

...he dominance of western capitalism ideology but, by demanding aid for the impoverished, they are actually assisting that western onslaught. In generations to come it is the aid workers and left-wing ...

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

...interact through trade. Socialism is a particular capitalist strategy. So is communism. Capitalism can assist those people who know the ideology and rules of that society to become wealthy. What h...

9. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s, all French agriculture, and corn and cotton farmers in the US.  The very products that would most assist the development of poor nations.  Tax-payers in the rich world prefer to keep poor...

10. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ating your opponents’ best arguments against you front-and-centre in your own speech does little to assist that selling process. The open-source movement needs you to believe in their philosophy...

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

... we (as benevolent outsiders) should intervene in the lives of a functionally distinct group of people to assist them in reaching some goal.  Development sits uncomfortably alongside the objectiv...

12. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
(Analysis/Analysis)

... we don’t know. And then we get to the development sector where charities and development agencies assist people we don’t know to stop being poor. In October 2006, at an international co...

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

...ties.  That time has value.  Once I have learned sufficiently then I procure property that will assist me to earn a living.  If I live in a society that doesn’t allow for the indi...

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

...uates at all. The current system results in perverse incentives where the worst schools get extra cash to assist them out of their difficulties.  This results in the ((moral hazard)) situation wh...

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

...elopment Goals is how many of them are dependent on government intervention. NGOs may work in Africa to assist with medication and symptomatic relief for individuals suffering from ((malaria)) but g...

16. Marcus Cicero
(Analysis/Quotes)

... the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC ...

17. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...post-conflict development model from that of conflict-survival?  A people who have learned to accept assistance from the outside will pay little attention to their own development.  In Zimba...

18. A revitalised UN may improve development in Africa
(Analysis/Analysis)

... attempting to go it alone but have adopted completely the other extreme.  They refuse international assistance to the point of making investment almost impossible.  The same British busines...

19. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... writes that Walmart has, by the simple expedient of purchasing $ 23 billion of goods a year from China, assisted 460 000 Chinese a year out of poverty through jobs created in factories dedicated to ...

20. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ent is not as simple as just giving people the things they lack.  Oxfam has, since the early 1980s, assisted subsistence and micro-farmers to grow coffee around the world.  Their success at...

21. Guide To Volunteering
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...sn't grown as quickly as the need for its programs and thus could really use an infusion of volunteer assistance until it can hire more staff. Evaluate their programs Once you are satisfied with t...

22. Reputation Risk Conference
(Events/News)

“Responsibility, Reputation, and Risk” is a one-day conference to assist companies to develop a system of aligning their social responsibility budgets to causes that can serve their core b

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

...petence at a large charity. “Responsibility, Reputation, and Risk” is a one-day conference to assist companies to develop a system of aligning their social responsibility budgets to causes...

24. Poverty: when second best isn't good enough
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a substitute since they are deemed incapable of development. If MIT and other organisations really aim to assist the poor then they would develop their products to be aimed at the rich first. Once the...

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

... we, as benevolent outsiders, should intervene in the lives of a functionally distinct group of people to assist them in reaching some goal. Development sits uncomfortably alongside the objectives of ...

26. Why Use Whythawk
(Static Content)

...ary to work in such unstructured environments. Whythawk also investigates regional development needs and assists in the ongoing surveillance and vigilance of investment initiatives. Whythawk first a...

27. Ratings Methodology
(Static Content)

...ers. What to Expect During a Site Visit The site visit is an integral component of the rating process and assists Whythawk analysts in understanding the organisation’s operational, financial, an...

28. Why Use Whythawk
(Static Content)

...ary to work in such unstructured environments. Whythawk also investigates regional development needs and assists in the ongoing surveillance and vigilance of investment initiatives. Whythawk first a...

29. Ratings Methodology
(Static Content)

...ers. What to Expect During a Site Visit The site visit is an integral component of the rating process and assists Whythawk analysts in understanding the organisation’s operational, financial, an...