whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

...ew web 2.0 companies at the expense of what economists call a \"contestable market\". Any market must be governed simply by this: there must be no force or fraud. Competitors cannot (as BA has ju...

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

... not clear is who that government governs. When most people living in a country choose to opt out of being governed, either by migrating or by maintaining cash links only with the informal sector the...

3. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
(Analysis/Analysis)

...one of the certainty of a commercial product. With proprietary software I know the price and companies are governed by laws that dictate what I can do if the product I bought doesn't perform as a...

4. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...by all. Rating Factors Ownership, Governance, and Management Demonstration is a charitable trust governed by a board made up of donors and community leaders. The director of operations is G...

5. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ally supported in one way or another by the majority.  It is in their hands to change the way they are governed – outsiders (as the US discovered in Iraq) cannot bring about dramatic change...

6. The Responsibility Gap
(Analysis/Analysis)

... has not proven a successful stratagem and, unless Nepalese choose for themselves how they would like to be governed, there is little the US - or anyone else - can do about it. The same is true for Et...

7. Terms of Use
(Static Content)

...icable. Whythawk reserves the right to deny access to the site to anyone at any time. These terms shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of South Africa, as they are applied to agre...