whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

...hat you mention are expensive and the very barriers to entry that attract traders into the informal market. Consumers who support street traders know that they offer no guarantees - which is why reta...

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

...ally declined. Private hospitals maintain their quality but at an increasing cost, passing this on to their consumers. The Health Minister has declared that this is outrageous, that the private heal...

3. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...et, all right. But not of a free one. Since companies couldn't pass on the real cost of electricity to consumers they were forced to run at a loss. Instead of having to bear higher electricity ...

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

...ing businesses spend a great deal of money convincing her that this isn't necessary. The result is that consumers lose. Without free competition prices are fixed artificially higher than they wo...

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

...r ID theft and fraud, but one of the downsides of the credit system is that "thin credit file" consumers sometimes have to apply for gas cards, boutique store cards, etc. just to build...

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

...hat compares to the interactivity of blogging or talk-radio? Advertisers have taken note and followed their consumers. Newspapers around the world have suffered. And, despite the protests of politi...

7. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rices of the goods that are produced in that country.  Raise minimum wage and the cost gets passed onto consumers through higher prices.  Raise taxes, increase legislative overhead, you name...

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

...ood to be true – never looked at their inputs to assess whether or not they were safe for consumption. Consumers can declare their allegiance at the till:  are you willing to pay more for a...

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

...on US expectations of phones, has none of the specialist services (especially 3G) that European and Japanese consumers take for granted.  But it won’t be long before the US catches up and t...

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

...ute it and repackage it in smaller quantities and then sell it on under your name at twice the price of what consumers should be paying. This regularly happens with everything from sugar, to soap. C...

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

...the Bottom of the Pyramid is divided into three parts: 1.  The poor are intelligent and sophisticated consumers The poor love high-quality brands; they cannot afford to risk their money and wil...

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

...flashpoint for consumer and civil-society action.  Oxfam believes the price is too low and demands that consumers pay more through their Fair Trade scheme.  All coffee trades internationally...

13. May I have the bill, please? A lesson in wilful ignorance ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

.... The low grumble of clients is not a personal attack on the organisation.  It is the gentle murmur of consumers hungry to be part of the development of their favourite products.  It is an ...

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

...ents.  A failure of the product can result in fatalities.  Scrutiny is quite a costly business but consumers are probably happy that this type of evaluation takes place.  You are probab...

15. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
(Analysis/Analysis)

... to food shortages, currency depreciation and/or stronger pass-through of higher oil prices to producers and consumers." There is much that can be done.  Inefficient state monopolies can be...

16. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ihoods of millions of ((poverty|poor)) subsistence farmers by allowing them to contact buyers and learn what consumers want.  Daniel Mashva, a rural farmer in South Africa, uses his phone to dia...

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

...s Seattle coffee culture swept the globe. Who does Oxfam blame?  Why Starbucks of course. It seems that consumers don't pay enough for coffee. Yet farming is not simply about growing the sam...

18. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ive behaviour while they do so. Capitalism is certainly a brutal system; but that brutality is not aimed at consumers.  It is aimed at the very businesses that revolutionaries hate so much.&nbsp...

19. The Feedback Loop
(Analysis/Analysis)

...vens, iPod music players, or television soap-operas) and provide it. If they don’t produce enough then consumers will have such a demand for the product that they will choose to pay more. This w...

20. Privacy Policy
(Static Content)

... reader information. E-mail Any and all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the consumers of Whythawk will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a thir...