whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
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...se who would likely not otherwise have access to them. Those computers have the potential to connect those children to so much information, ideas, other nations and cultures, and give them something ...

2.
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...power start forgetting that they\'re employs and start thinking they\'re the parents of particularly stupid children....

3. Taxing the Future, Confusing the Present
(Analysis/Analysis)

...stensible advantages to being in the system. Loyalty oaths are a useful way of brainwashing taxpayer's children into supporting the system, but it is slow. Meanwhile, a government that has lost ...

4. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nt? Independence in Zimbabwe came at a high cost. Many lost their lives and homes. Parents never saw their children and many grew up as orphans. One man emerged from the war a hero. Robert Mugabe, ...

5. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

...that other options don't exist. It is just as clear that many, such as Ehrenreich, would rather their children deal with environmental disaster in the future than accept responsibility for their...

6. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t were those terrible leaches on society – capitalists – who would sell their own grandmothers, children and wives to make mincemeat to sell to horses to make craft-glue-macramé-san...

7. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s and rubella are terrible diseases that have plagued humanity for generations. They are so common amongst children that they are normally abbreviated together as MMR. Parents all across the world h...

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

... Rebel armies hacked off limbs, carving their initials into the victims' flesh as a warning to others. Children, some as young as eight, were forced to batter their parents to death, then eat the...

9. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
(Analysis/Analysis)

...of our society, and to tolerate a platform for this kind of sexual predation and deviance against our young children is inexcusable.  The right to freedom of expression is not absolute." An...

10. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t for human rights. All we're seeing so far is a pursuit of freedom from responsibility. How much like children. ...

11. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

... many schools have no access to running water, let alone electricity."  Worse than that: too many children still get taught sitting under trees, rather than even having classrooms. Technolog...

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

...m white males.  We need to do more to democratise the Internet.”  I enquired as to what his children use:  “SMS and MXit,” he responded.  In other words, what a d...

13. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ief that they can do nothing to change their own circumstances. Women who remain in abusive relationships, children who are bullied at school, students who don't study because they believe they&#...

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

... Infrastructure - Care-givers Capacity: BBB Physical Infrastructure - Quantitative (Childrens' / Cluster Homes Only): not rated Soft Infrastructure - Information Sy...

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

...apacity: AA Infrastructure - Care-givers Capacity: AA Physical Infrastructure - Quantitative (Childrens' / Cluster Homes Only): A Soft Infrastructure - Information Systems: AA...

16. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lth of the poor is US$ 5 trillion, according to a study conducted on behalf of the World Bank.  “Children are told, ‘Eat your veggies, there are starving people in Ethiopia!’ an...

17. While no-one was watching
(Analysis/Analysis)

We have recently started rating AIDS children’s care facilities (the term “orphanage” is anathema).  We received a report about an organisation that was neglecting the children

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

...hen supporting charities. Mama Jackie was exposed by television actuality show, Carte Blanche, for getting children and family members to fabricate stories in an effort to raise funds for non-existin...

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

...h. This has prompted a flurry of activity in civil society in an attempt to shelter vulnerable and orphaned children. Questions always arise about the best way to look after the little helpless victim...

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

...reign nations to intercede in the South African state.  After the Sharpeville Massacre , in which 566 children were killed during a peaceful protest, the world chose to express their condemnatio...

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

A particular focus of development is always on the value of ((education)).  Without a solid foundation it is impossible for people to look after themselves and they may remain reliant on whatever

22. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lving the proportion of people who earn less than $ 1 a day Goal 2: achieve universal primary education for children everywhere, both girls and boys Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women b...

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

...g.  If we fail to express that value the danger is that the free good will be used up like sweets at a children's birthday party.  Deforestation around Lake Victoria - shared by Uganda,...

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

...sed to admit it.  If both CIDA and Oprah’s Leadership Academy were really about the needs of the children rather than about the marketing and idealism of their founders then they would be l...

25. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

...  This entrenches the rich – poor divide and creates a form of educational aristocracy where the children of the rich have greater access to opportunities. Fee-paying parents flee poorer s...

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

... it is time for the Department of Education to adopt the same mechanisms of the private sector and give our children hope for employment and success.     ...

27. Guide To Volunteering
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...arities that are too under-funded and under-staffed. A volunteer might stuff envelopes, feed animals, tutor children, build housing, serve as a museum docent, counsel those in crisis, sell tickets or ...

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

...rols along with esoteric and poorly-measured objectives.  Dr Allan Boesak defrauded Paul Simon’s Children’s Trust of R 1.1 million.  Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandel...

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

...nups have, only they don't work as well. We'll come by and visit when we're not too busy." Children play with toy-versions of grown-up tools knowing that they will get a chance to use...

30. The Feedback Loop
(Analysis/Analysis)

...uy products and little competition or differentiation between rival products. Needy people are treated like children: "we know what’s best for you." Just like cancer, development organ...

31. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ns. Public schools are a public good where politicians spend taxpayers’ money on other people’s children. Schools, frequently, don’t achieve the objectives for which they were set up...