whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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... 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. Mugabe is a dictator on hi...

2. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...irms, from Anglo American to PG Glass, have invested in their own education and medication programs after giving up on the health department. The cost to business is reduced productivity and increase...

3. Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hen applying for a loan will not get a loan. All he can do is run it as it is until it no longer works. Giving land to the landless does not make them wealthy unless they also have the right to sell...

4. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
(Analysis/Analysis)

... spent over the next three years. In other words, the US$20 billion per year is as much as the US spends giving direct cash subsidies to their cotton farmers. This is important, but it takes attenti...

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

...s who think of them as weak, and the teacher of lazy students doubts they have the ability to be taught. Giving charity is just another way of saying, "I don't believe you can do it either.&...

6. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant B
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...entrating on producing appropriate business plans for their clients.  Only 25% received funding but, giving a degree of optimism, 44% of clients are still in operation. With more focus on appr...

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

Mohammed Yunus’, of the Grameen Bank, recent elevation in winning the Nobel Peace Prize has dramatically increased the interest in microfinance solutions to poverty.  Organisations across t

8. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r skills that you developed on your own are not always readily visible to the person interviewing you are giving 20 seconds sight to your CV.  However, imagine that, at the top of the page, was t...

9. The redistribution of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...worth it. Ending poverty in society is not a simple matter of taking wealth from one group of people and giving it to another.  It is a slow and painful process of correcting past mistakes and e...

10. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ng by popular decree.  A populist government will appease the masses sense of poverty and despair by giving them entitlements to redistribute wealth.  Redistributive policies will lead some ...

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

...ut “the number of people living below US$ 1 a day is 1.1 billion” without defining poverty or giving an indication of what the problem is. The real question should not be “why are pe...

12. Is the ownership of property at odds with the needs of the poor?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... other people's property. Real development comes from respecting the property produced by others and giving individuals an incentive to create new property so that they may increase the overall w...

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

...y then the real cost is hidden from the end-user.  When a charity raises funds with the intention of giving something away then, without an external and impartial observer (such as Whythawk), it ...

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

...w more than 50 billion-Dollar foundations in the US alone. Many of these foundations are having trouble giving away the minimum of 5% of their capital that they must to maintain their charitable sta...

15. The danger of wanting to believe in the power of good intentions
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the giver and recipient; and, third, that there is a massive assumption that the organisation you're giving to (mostly a third-party intermediary) knows who to give the money to and how to go abo...

16. Guide To Volunteering
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...e. If so, did you research your volunteer decision to the same extent that you scrutinize your charitable giving decisions? I doubt you'd feel confident sending a charity a check for close to a th...

17. Guide to Donating
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...s before deciding whether or not to make a donation to any development organisation: Be Proactive In Your Giving Smart donors generally don't give reactively, responding only to the first organisa...