whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...s for controlled trading, where hawkers with the appropriate license can trade legitimately. Car guards by comparison provide a service even if you don\'t request it (negative option marketing), an...

2. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o in exchange for Elf being given preference over British and US oil firms. Gabon is, however, more stable in comparison to Zimbabwe and Cameroon, but after more than 40 years in power, Bongo must sur...

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

...ar. In return for our tax, only 15.1% of matriculants at public schools gained a university pass in 2007, in comparison to the 78.4% at private schools. State expenditure on education is not only mo...

4. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ty could, for instance, vote to ban hunting and so disadvantage the few who enjoy it. Free market trades, by comparison, are win-win transactions since people only trade with each other for mutual ad...

5. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a self-reflective reward. The only way this can be achieved is if the person abandon also the idea of direct comparison with those who are already successful. If the best you can do is crawl across ...

6. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...bought it before passing on the shares to his stepdaughter, Jane Bancroft. Even their website is boring. In comparison to The Economist, owned by the Pearson Group, and first published in 1843, The ...

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

...ties. Striking for jobs is like fucking for virginity. Maybe you think that this is silly and a meaningless comparison to the idea of charity and supporting the poor. Is striking for jobs any diffe...

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

...is rivals the equivalent of millions of dollars in order to become Alexander VI, the 215th Catholic Pope. In comparison to Nigerian elections, he got in cheap. Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua is rumoured ...

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

...han telephone companies are held accountable for the conversations their customers have. It's a spurious comparison. Telephone companies don't record your conversations to replay as aggregate...

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

...ry in the developed world costs around $ 2 – 3 000 depending on the nature of the intervention.  A comparison between the Royal College of Ophthalmology and Aravind Hospital by the UK Natio...

11. Rating to create a market; questions and answers
(Analysis/Analysis)

The Whythawk team is going through an exciting period of growth; rolling out enterprise development ratings in Gauteng, and developing a new model for rating HIV/AIDS organisations, is pushing us hard

12. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
(Analysis/Analysis)

...red on by ratings agencies such as Whythawk.  Transparency allows for direct and meaningful analysis and comparison.  And that helps everyone, especially the poor....

13. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ill still fetch close to this “c” price.  The price is currently around 105 c / lb (US). By comparison, imagine if all wines were sold at a fixed price irrespective of the amount of ...

14. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
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... small business consultants and mentors in Gauteng; 2006 / 7 sample series Enterprise Development Comparison: Gauteng and Western Cape - 2006/7 Comparison of the aggregated fi...