whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

Benin Mwangi, who blogs about doing business in Africa, asked me recently: "should the discussion be about how to get the informal sector to become part of the formal sector or should it be how t

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

"Well, something is better than nothing," said the well-dressed man at the charity launch function. "No it isn't. You're making the assumption that the recipients of corporate

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

...w ideas, to support fledgling – but successful – new projects that have a real opportunity to end dependency.  Organisations that are dependent themselves have very little hope of end...

4. Ideas and challenges for promoting economic development
(Category List)

...elopment ratings. Analysts regularly work on ideas that would help to enhance the development sector and end dependency. The best of these are collated and published here for general discussion and ...