whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...ople are working their way out of poverty without the help of NGOs or peculiar ideas of centralised, state-controlled economies. The only place in the world that steadfastly seems incapable of chan...

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...avin, let\'s not haggle over semantics. You know as well as I do that the world economy is ovcerwhelmingly controlled by a very small minority of it\'s people. This is the problem. If you look at t...

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... the economy exists in a few large corporations; South Africa 4) Entrepreneurial - most of the economy is controlled by small firms; er, no-one actually, maybe the UK Countries have some blend of ...

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...are united by one thing: their belief in economic democracy. Our biggest critique of capitalism is that it controls lives without giving us a say. Organisations like unions are a corrective. Mu...

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...cture for the status quo. The decisions that matter in the world are economic decisions, and these are not controlled by parliament. That\'s why a strike is more powerful than a vote....

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...\\\'s likely not to be left to market forces, perhaps some sort of new deal arrangement and tighter border controls? I\\\'d be interested to hear your views on this, my ivory tower may be a priveli...

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...run a retail business, card guards offer a service. The outrage over hawkers should be obvious: without control, hawkers cost jobs and damage the economy. They pay R0.00 to set up on a pavement out...

8. The hazard of market dominance
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...ctor has then the larger these deviations can be, and the greater the impact on price inflation. Effective control of the economy is in very few hands. The South African government comprises over 34%...

9. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
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In November 2007, Tiger Brands was fined R 98.8 million for collusion in fixing the price of bread. This was only 5.7% of their revenue; other manufacturers – who didn't fez up in time - fa

10. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
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...pend on Eskom for electricity. Eskom is largely state-owned and their pricing and investment strategy are controlled by the government. Plenty has already been discussed in the press regarding Presi...

11. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
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...outh African economy. State spending, as a proportion of total economic income, is 34.2%. If anyone has control over the economy and over the services that people receive it is the state. So, in t...

12. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
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... account for those promises. If interest rates are dramatically lowered before inflation is brought under control then the impact on the poor will be significantly more painful than a few months of h...

13. Exports and parliamentary laziness
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...le expense of transporting the goods in the first place. Exporting from a country that still has exchange control makes matters even worse as manufacturers go cap in hand to "beg" governmen...

14. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
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...he world recognised the problem. In 1982 the United Nations Convention on the Sea gave governments strict control of their 200 mile exclusion zone but left the deep oceans open to all (after all, who...

15. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
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...hinese manufacturing is still very rudimentary, environmentally hazardous, and with poor safety and health controls belies how far they have come. And how much worse it used to be. China is also not...

16. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
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...;) And that's their 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 journ...

17. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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...on occurring across the American media landscape. The power of the media is swiftly being limited to a few controlling hands, which poses a serious threat to our democracy. The foundation of our democ...

18. Everything is coming up Capitalism
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...e economy exists in a few large corporations; South Africa 4) Entrepreneurial - most of the economy is controlled by small firms; er, no-one actually, maybe the UK Countries have some blend of t...

19. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
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... companies can be run effectively. They rapidly change executives who fail to deliver. They exercise the control that only an individual owner can. Private Equity has seen major corporations delist...

20. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
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... are two parts to the South African wine industry: local sales and foreign exports. Local is intolerably controlled by the South African government. "The government doesn't give diddly-squ...

21. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
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...reasing depth and lack of context of stories." We have moved from a world of studied, determined and controlled journalism to one of a maddening rush to report on events. Events without context,...

22. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
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...quot;criminals" from coming here too. As with the French Revolution, sometimes the chaos spins out of control and upsets the sensibilities of the nice rich people who "never saw it coming&qu...

23. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...you get an allowance. Around US$ 100 per month. Many people are refusing to go on to anti-retrovirals to control their AIDS for fear of losing their disability grants. There are no jobs, so there i...

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

...ust remain with either the journalist or the media company. In either case, we reasonably need a degree of control as to how these search engines unilaterally reuse our content. We don't necessari...

25. Government to gag South African bloggers?
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... cumulatively post over 250 articles a day – how exactly does the South African government intend to control this? Or are we heading for a two-tiered system where those literate and wealthy enou...

26. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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... then CD’s.  How do they make money when the music isn’t in a box?  How do they keep control of the ownership of that music?  So they shut it out and attacked peer-to-peer n...

27. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
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...party - not by the people, and the winning party is always the ANC.  So leadership of the ANC conveys control of the country.  The president appoints cabinet ministers, provincial leaders, m...

28. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
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...t; There is a condition known as learned helplessness in which a person, through experiences beyond their control, is sensitised to the belief that they can do nothing to change their own circumstanc...

29. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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...site / off site, decentralised payments and services); world class centralised facilities to aggregate and control the products as they arrive. More impressively, though, is the way in which expensiv...

30. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
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...s has changed.  Companies are now widely owned and answerable to shareholders and various independent control bodies, in addition to their staff.  The increasing complexity of products, dist...

31. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
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...nce’s continuing terror of capitalism and globalisation are simply a way of pretending that they can control their future without making any allowances. It doesn’t always have to end in t...

32. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
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... introduction of technologies threatens the thing that centralised, monopolised states demand:  their control of access to information and freedom of communication. Wireless broadband communicat...

33. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
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...all the answers about how economic development should take place.  The gap between free societies and controlled societies widens every day. Unless anyone is still in doubt: societies that allow...

34. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
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...ul war on corruption. The grotesque disparity between the rich and poor is maintained and exacerbated by uncontrolled greed at the very highest levels of government,” writes Patrick Guntensperge...

35. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
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...roduct standards; iii)that aid should go to governments irrespective of their poor governance or state-led control of their economies; iv) and that prices be "stabilised" by price fixing. I...

36. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
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...n what is known as the “c” price which is set by the New York Board of Trade, an archaic price control mechanism.  This type of price fixing is wonderful for large distributors and ro...

37. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
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... his mouth so he can breathe. If we were to catch up with those aliens, if we were to do so under our own control and under our own guidance: what would it look like? For starters, we wouldn’t...

38. How do we prepare nonprofit organisations for the long term?
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...far. And it is these best practices, amongst others, which any ratings system should encourage. Financial controls engender discipline and awareness and client feedback encourages a level of service ...

39. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
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...h the rest cannot operate, belong to the state. Many countries consider these types of products worthy of controlling.  Does it serve the public? Witness the furore in Germany when Russia cut o...

40. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
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...ders.  Would you ((trust)) them?  Or would you continue to demand close audit scrutiny and tough controls (like Sarbanes Oxley)? At this moment there is limited scrutiny placed on developme...

41. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
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...e which does little for job creation, and is unevenly distributed. While international inflation is under control, "exceptions include a few countries in Africa, which have experienced a sharp i...

42. Marcus Cicero
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... must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want t...

43. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
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...sufficient economic growth to complete the list. Their goals came out (in order of priority) as: Goal 1: control HIV / AIDS transmission and spread Goal 2: provide micronutrients to reduce malnutrit...

44. Responsibility Reputation Risk - a conference on corporate social investment
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...harities and development organisations are at significant risk from a lack of oversight and poor financial controls along with esoteric and poorly-measured objectives.  Dr Allan Boesak defrauded ...

45. The Feedback Loop
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.... When feedback breaks down the result is disease. Diabetes is the result of the body’s inability to control the appropriate level of insulin, which - in turn - is the responsibility of the Isle...

46. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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...rovide additional guidance and analysis: Scenario 1: High-growth emerging market Scenario 2: Nation controlled by narrow political elite Scenario 3: Migration leading to skills shortage and ...

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...rovide additional guidance and analysis: Scenario 1: High-growth emerging market Scenario 2: Nation controlled by narrow political elite Scenario 3: Migration leading to skills shortage and ...

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