whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...of the possible issues that people have been blogging about as to the implematation (such as the adults in the communities recieving the comuters not knowing how to use the computers etc) of the proje...

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

...-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 Mbatha, spok...

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

...Internet, human nature is not so easily overcome. There's a positive side to this, however, individual communities can block out a unified identity, but it also frees you to create distinc...

4. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

... of shareholders. Yet companies are more than the sum of their parts. They do have tremendous impacts on the communities in which they operate and on the environment. A decision to shut down a plant...

5. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

...imisation. The first pesticide producers were stopping the plagues of insects that destroyed crops and plunged communities into famine. That still happens in parts of Africa when locust swarms blot ou...

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

...outside in. The poor in these countries are not involved in the way in which capitalism is expressed in their communities. It will take the shape of the people who brought it. Suburbia. In the cou...

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

... the downtrodden masses incapable of self-reflection. Where only brave journalists, the most educated in their communities, had the ability to put that suffering into context and voice the desires of ...

8. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...is rising.  The rich recognise this and seek to protect themselves even further, limiting access to their communities to prevent entrance to outsiders.  Sensing this, the poor are becoming v...

9. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
(Analysis/Analysis)

... that is no different from needing to comply with environmental policy to attract European investments. Muslim communities are no different from any other conservative grouping:  hardworking, dis...

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

...ot possible to own the entire distribution and business chain; how are you going to form partnerships with the communities in which you sell? Co-creation of your products will require a whole new focu...

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

...ldquo;Hotel Rwanda”. For generations youngsters have fled the quiet conformity and constraints of their communities and families to come to the distortions, lawlessness and abandon of developin...

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

...towards development.  They wish to undo the mistakes of the past and create a pleasant utopia amongst the communities in which they intervene. This creates an awful divide between countries and ...

13. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cts from their markets.  What is an executive to do? And how do they even make a wise investment in poor communities in the first place?  Start with a simpler query:  “How does...

14. AIDS-related illnesses cost South African businesses up to R 2.2 billion per year
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e population became apparent in Africa. Nowadays, faith-based organizations, which often reach the most remote communities, as well as being prominent in large urban centres, are uniquely placed to pr...

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

...y to deliver a good product and treat your staff well; now companies are expected to support and develop their communities through targeted social investment.  Companies are expected to deliver c...

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

...ider capitalists to be unworthy unless as a source of cash. This creates an awful divide between countries and communities that develop on their own, and those that receive coaching from the outside. ...

17. A sense of scale
(Analysis/Analysis)

A lot is made of occasional government and private development initiatives: how they will change communities, improve livelihoods and so on. It is useful to have a sense of proportion; some idea of ho