whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...kipedia for a current answer. Most of what I\'m discussing is price theory; in which, should politicians choose to do so, they can price things that are important appropriately and businesses will re...

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...aps \"The future of work/unions\" there or on anything you are passionate about... It is up to you, you choose the subject. You would get a link back when you link to your own article, if you wish....

3. Dealing with the consequences of Zimbabwe
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...outh African manufacturing. With low costs in Zimbabwe, many manufacturers (especially for textiles) may choose to relocate to the other side of the Beit Bridge. This is a good thing for regional de...

4. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
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...any, it also reduces their ability to pay salaries, do maintenance, or make future investments. They can choose to absorb the cost, by firing people or reducing capacity; or they can pass on the cost...

5. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
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...re are two ways in which government can deliver on its "developmental state" objectives: it can choose to pay for schools and hospitals, or it can support the people themselves. Which is mo...

6. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
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... South Africa's population. They tend to be more highly educated and ambitious than most. When they choose to invest they also want to limit their risk. Services businesses are "safer"...

7. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
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... perpetual demands that business "stop the exploitation", it is no wonder that business leaders choose to keep their opinions to themselves lest their pronouncements attract further attentio...

8. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
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... short of taxation at the border, are free to arrive and go as they please. People are not. When people choose to migrate to look for work and opportunities they do so out of respect for their own a...

9. 100 Days of Sodom
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...a function and achieve a required outcome. We do not need people employed simply to keep them busy. Why choose India as a role-model for job creation? Reported unemployment is not an indicator of s...

10. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...any competitive environment - business owners and investors have the choice not to participate if they so choose. Charity supports the state but does nothing for the market If there was a joke about...

11. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
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...eir right. It's their personal space to share - and NOT share - as they wish. Control is key. If I choose to share my lurid gossip with the world, making all of my journal entries public and ...

12. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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...f recognising their own value - the greatest producers and thinkers voluntarily carry everyone else. They choose to be enslaved by the least capable. On a large scale this is equivalent to the United ...

13. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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...emely difficult. Unwinding the Hollow State Zimbabwe is an empty but convenient warehouse where people choose to meet for the purpose of trade and exchange. Sellers bring their goods, buyers bring...

14. After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
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...being performed." Whythawk has long held that companies outsource their reputational risk when they choose to associate themselves with development organisations. The relationship is lopsided w...

15. The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
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...he epic proportions of the Indonesian tsunami. There is a trade-off in the community of nations. If you choose to go it alone - if you choose to shun the world – then you are truly alone. In ...

16. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
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... has emasculated oversight commissions designed to prevent the abuse of power. Do those, like Bizos, who choose to fight dictatorships on their own ground give legitimacy to those systems? "I a...

17. Start your business in Johannesburg but hire your advisor in Cape Town
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... objective is to improve the transparency of development as well as offering beneficiaries the ability to choose consultants who will offer them the greatest chance of success. "Our results offer...

18. What comes after Capitalism?
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...ate the flavour of Capitalism much as we debate the nature of an acceptable quality of air, but we cannot choose to cast it aside any more than we can cast that which we breathe. Unless you choose to...

19. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
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... interacting with your environment.  If you want to go faster, you can.  Slower, you can.  Choose a different route, you can. As Albaraka proves, a Muslim can engage with capital market...

20. Have you paid your car guard today?
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...; Do you honestly believe that you will stop informal traders by legislating against them? We all seem to choose the laws we will break based on how the law effects our lifestyle.  Smoking in pub...

21. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
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... poorest, they also become astonishingly competitive in their traditional markets.   Even if you choose to ignore the informal sector, what new innovations may come out of that market to radi...

22. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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...iew. A protected employee, with a few free hours a day to spend time coding and developing software, can choose to release it for free. But it isn't really free, is it? On every page – fr...

23. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
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...prevent investment, or corruption and legal practice that terrorises business owners, or even that people choose it. It is a statement that could earn heaps of abuse for this writer but, ultimately, ...

24. "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
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...ng term value on which we can all build and which we can all ultimately share. In any investment, we must choose those that are best placed to deliver. So too, in development, must we choose carefully...

25. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
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...arkets work to ensure that farmers know the latest auction prices for a range of products and are able to choose how to sell their own harvests.  As governments and other controlled markets gradu...

26. Enterprise Development and Employment: Experiences in South Africa and South Eastern Europe
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...diture on education in 2003 (SA Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin ). This basically means that South Africa chooses to first educate the population, before promoting an enterprising culture. In the SE...

27. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
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... every school in terms of their performance, issue these ratings to the public and then allow learners to choose their own place of education. If that means that some schools are forced to shut, so b...

28. No matter how hard you try bad environments lead to bad results
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...oice.  Be something the system doesn’t want you to be, or fit in with the system.  If you choose to fight the system, well, let’s just say that Saddam’s prisons never strug...

29. Adam Smith
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...eir self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. Adam Smith ...

30. How much does a free education cost?
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...sm of their founders then they would be low-profile low-cost bursary schemes in which the students got to choose their own direction and their own beliefs.  The ability to make free choices abou...

31. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
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...nd existing ones. And for any politician who would deny young, disadvantaged learners the opportunity to choose a school best suited for their needs, I pose a simple question.  How many politici...

32. 3 How does the Whythawk approach differ from other organisations?
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...ated companies, trust your broker, and put your money into the ones at the top of the pile. Or, you could choose to put your money into a specific sector which interests you, and into the best of bree...

33. A sense of scale
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... years to legally start a business. Since only the most talented and creative start businesses, they must choose between the few available jobs, migrating to other (less didactic) countries, or going ...

34. The Responsibility Gap
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...ship is not the fault of the US. Regime change has not proven a successful stratagem and, unless Nepalese choose for themselves how they would like to be governed, there is little the US - or anyone e...

35. The Feedback Loop
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... If they don’t produce enough then consumers will have such a demand for the product that they will choose to pay more. This will lead to large profits and encourage other entrepreneurs to provi...

36. Vouchers and Individual Choice
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...annual fee at school directly. That way the same money is being spent on education but parents now get to choose the schools they feel best serve their interests. That vouchers take the place of cash ...

37. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
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...erailed. A political elite, fearful of losing their advantages and dominance over the rest of society may choose to reverse the reforms. Large companies could be nationalised or "stolen" thr...

38. Terms of Use
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...t or represent that materials on our site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access our site from other locations, you do so at your own initiative and you are r...

39. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
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...erailed. A political elite, fearful of losing their advantages and dominance over the rest of society may choose to reverse the reforms. Large companies could be nationalised or "stolen" thr...

40. Terms of Use
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...t or represent that materials on our site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access our site from other locations, you do so at your own initiative and you are r...