whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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... So do all democratic and free-market states. The only countries where the starving exceed the well-off are disaster zones like Zimbabwe, Somalia or the Sudan. These are not countries that many, perh...

2. The joy of a good biotech lunch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...elective in-breeding, recently declared that the production of genetically modified (GM) foods is the worst disaster of all time. He further expressed his horror that farmers who grow GM crops leave ...

3. After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...led to remember that they will have to repay if the rising market does not. Whatever else may come of the disasters playing out in the credit markets today, future value, and opportunities for the p...

4. The tragedy of Burma, should we help, how to help
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e and famine have followed. The international community has been swift in their response. The UN and other disaster-relief organisations have collected donations across the world. Any other governme...

5. The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
(Analysis/Analysis)

...,000 people in Cuba. This may sound like a good thing but, if you’re a doctor, it’s a bit of a disaster. A society may suffer if it has too few doctors but, once it hits the appropriate ...

6. The errors of selection and confirmation bias
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ker, is upset. "I think that most of our journalists, reporters and editors are uninspired, negative, disaster focused, sensation seeking, sad sorry scumbags." Since business is largely sen...

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

... daily revenues have risen from $50 million in 2003, to $190 million in 2007. Yet it has been an appalling disaster. Between 2003 and 2007 oil production fell from 3.3 million barrels of crude per da...

8. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t. It is just as clear that many, such as Ehrenreich, would rather their children deal with environmental disaster in the future than accept responsibility for their own actions right now. ...

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

... poor." We can debate about whether or not a short-term bail-out is of use for the victim of a random disaster. What is starting to become beyond debate is that long-term charity is not –...

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

...inning of Renewed Competition As for The Wall Street Journal ... has anyone read it recently? It's a disaster. It's boring, dense, hard to read and badly laid out. It looks like they'...

11. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
(Analysis/Analysis)

...about now is: how do we stabilise and refloat the country? Argentina attempted to see off their dance with disaster in the late 1990s by linking the peso to the US dollar. That resulted in currency ...

12. The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan Sucks
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e on the horizon might be a tsunami. Seriously, though, who are you going to give money to come a terrible disaster? Iran after an earthquake in Bam that levelled a city and buried half-a-million pe...

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

... wonderful for large distributors and roasters, who are able to keep their input costs consistent, but is a disaster for small producers.  No matter how good or bad a coffee is it will still fetc...

14. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...uo;t have any major solutions for you, but it will help to change your mindset from thinking, “What a disaster,” to “What does that market want?” when you confront the usual im...

15. The Tyranny of Red Lights
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ss the party view - then there is no active participation and so they don't bother. It is a recipe for disaster in any economy.  If the vast bulk of society has no incentive, then there will...

16. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e and ability to get a technical qualification.  If you’re unskilled and struggling it’s a disaster. African countries have to compete on an international level with everyone else to...

17. BBC: Disaster funds 'unfairly divided'
(Analysis/Analysis)

...says. In 2005, emergency aid reached at least $17bn (£8.6bn) - outstripping any other year, the World Disasters Report says.  But while high-profile cases such as the Indian Ocean tsunami a...