whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...y by the screaming neediness of the commons, but ignore the confiscation of the commons by the screaming greediness of folk who have funded their research from moneys gotten from exactly the same sour...

2. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
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... "The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer as the filthy rich continue unabated with their greed to be winners who take all," says Bonkosi Mncwabe, the NUM 's Regional Coordinat...

3. Searching for objective measures of value
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...rd-party value was assumed to be gold. So much so that, in 1945 at Bretton Woods, the war-time allies agreed on an international gold standard to stabilise the world's economy. It was complex....

4. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
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...ying up their factories into small job-lots. Mass-production is more efficient. If everyone on earth agreed to wear the same clothes, eat the same food and live in the same place, the world would u...

5. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
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...n egg. The farmer who owned the goose was ecstatic but it wasn't long before his wonder gave way to greed. Why should he be forced to wait an entire day for one golden egg? He and his wife kil...

6. Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
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...s of the Protected Disclosures Act 26 of 2000. By now, Tshishonga had had enough of the department. He agreed to leave after extracting an undertaking from his superiors that he would be paid his sal...

7. How every day on strike left civil servants permanently worse-off
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Striking civil servants have, today, agreed on a wage increase with their boss, the South African Government. The 7.5% was the final offer tabled last week by government and rejected by COSATU, the Co

8. Nigeria, or the idiots guide to stealing an election
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...a bit like venture capital. Shadowy figures would put up the money on condition that certain things be agreed in advance. At the same time Obasanjo began the second phase of his machinations. The g...

9. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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... out and attacked peer-to-peer network sites.  It wasn’t until the battle was lost that they agreed, over a barrel, that Apple maybe had a point with their iPod.  And it has worked bri...

10. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
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Strategies for Businesses reaching out to Informal Markets In 1997, as part of the conditions they agreed upon for getting their cellular licence, Vodacom developed a sophisticated telephone call-cent

11. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
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Viacom - network parent of MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures - has agreed on a distribution deal with fledgling Internet television service, Joost. Started by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Frii

12. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
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...ruption. The grotesque disparity between the rich and poor is maintained and exacerbated by uncontrolled greed at the very highest levels of government,” writes Patrick Guntensperger, in the Jak...

13. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
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...at scrutiny is performed by third-party professionals. If all the stent manufacturers got together and agreed on a set of safety standards and told us to trust them, “We’ll comply with th...

14. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
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In 2000, members of the United Nations agreed on a set of priority poverty alleviation objectives, known as the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by 2015. They are, briefly: Goal 1: eradi

15. Terms of Use
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...ating to your use of this site. These terms may not be modified by you, in writing or otherwise, unless agreed to in a written document signed by Whythawk. You represent and warrant to Whythawk that ...