whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
(Analysis/Analysis)

... of his country's oil production after declaring his lack of faith in private endeavour. He tore up the contracts that oil extraction companies had signed in the 1990s and imposed new ones on them...

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

...cant costs to taxpayers. Firstly, as a result of increasing life-expectancies (assuming that you don't contract HIV and die before you retire, you should live a long life). Secondly, as a result...

3. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...7 million unemployed. However, consider the implications for those who benefit from the scheme. A company contracted to refurbish a road will, of necessity, hire people. Those jobs will be filled. ...

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

...l markets even come to be? The break-down of property rights A centralised state exists largely to protect contract and the enforcement of property rights. Individual rights and the welfare state ar...

5. The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
(Analysis/Analysis)

...oven audiences. Media companies won't have to risk and invest in creating stars, they'll just offer contracts to the best and share in advertising revenue. Those of you wondering why anyone w...

6. Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ot normally stoop to being a consumer-action journal; however, when the products in question are cell-phone contracts it may be of interest to understand how they stack up against each other. Cell ph...

7. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nt: "She was wearing a dress, what did you expect me to do?") Zuma proclaimed that he had avoided contracting AIDS by having a quick shower after coitus. But you see, Zuma doesn't have t...

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

... cents per minute.  Vodacom expected it to be a marketing give-away; to build reputation while selling contracts as their main revenue stream.  Instead it became a multi-billion Rand industr...

9. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

... was reduced. They are now a fraction of the size (down to six staff, including two directors) and five contractors who perform consulting, training and bookkeeping services on their behalf. P...

10. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ted algorithmic software.  None of these people is unionised.  Most of them will be on short-term contracts working on this project to get the product to market.  The purchasing departm...

11. Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...elf.  The organisation can then use these ratings reports in their quest for funding without having to contract in specialised, and costly, fundraising services. As with investment, so with char...

12. Aggregation and collaboration: a guide to making money and doing good in poor nations
(Analysis/Analysis)

...eck.  Companies don’t have to worry about collecting money from remote areas and enforcing their contracts in countries with poor legislative protection. Collaboration also works.  Fe...

13. "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...bly disadvantaged. The trouble is, yet again, that there are too many. The current solution: award a single contract to a qualifying entity and, thereafter, give the others a shot at it. So, ACME cc s...

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

...; see what happens to you if you attempt to love everyone equally.  Even cell-phones are given away on contracts for free.  Richard Branson has had an impossible time trying to convince Sout...

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

...ng its hundreds of projects a worker's cooperative in Brazil that is growing rapidly:  each member contracts individually with Coopa-Roca, but the collective meets weekly. Membership in the c...

16. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
(Static Content)

...cy and reform come first, although it certainly does help if private property is respected and some rule of contract is available. However, sometimes social mobility is so great that it can overwhelm ...

17. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
(Static Content)

...www.whythawk.com. II. Records that may be requested: Administration & Operations: Correspondence Author contracts Subscriptions records Sales records Stock records Production records Remuneration ...

18. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
(Static Content)

...cy and reform come first, although it certainly does help if private property is respected and some rule of contract is available. However, sometimes social mobility is so great that it can overwhelm ...

19. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
(Static Content)

...www.whythawk.com. II. Records that may be requested: Administration & Operations: Correspondence Author contracts Subscriptions records Sales records Stock records Production records Remuneration ...