whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...mar, North Korea). This leaves the nation with less ambition than it had before. Ambitious people are mobile. Nations are not....

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...illiantly stated. I couldn\'t agree more, the big revenue streams of the future will be dominated by the mobile platform. It\'s just taking the big (US) web companies a while to realize that....

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What is wikimedia doing to promote it\'s web properties on the mobile platform? Is there a meaningful way to interact with something like Wikipedia through a mobile phone?

4. The hazard of market dominance
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...e they have to take whatever price is offered, or accept power failures or other external factors as an immobile consequence of business. Business owners can respond in many ways to these external p...

5. Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...or all but a few to create a normative set of comparable figures between competing companies. Even Virgin Mobile, which promises simplicity, is anything but straightforward. After a rather involved s...

6. Have you paid your car guard today?
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...and waving of forefingers. A simple symptom of poverty in any developing country is that labour, which is mobile, moves from areas where there are no jobs to other areas where there are still no jobs ...

7. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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In March 2000 the original dotcom Bubble 1.0 burst.  With hindsight there were lots of reasons that it happened:  vastly overvalued stocks in companies that didn’t sell anything and lo

8. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ology is also changing.  Cell-phone access of a content-rich site like Wikipedia is difficult.  Mobiled, a South African initiative, allows people to SMS keywords to Wikipedia and the servic...

9. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
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...st societies in the world, the ultimate effect will be that the new technology will spread everywhere. ((Mobile phones)) were first the exclusive purvey of the very rich.  As they became commodi...

10. Is the $ 100 laptop no more than a really expensive light-bulb?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...question of moral hazard, that niggling thing that economists worry about.  If you give your child a mobile-phone and they know you’ll simply replace it without comment if it disappears I c...

11. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sign up for Fair Trade goods.  Major manufacturers buy carbon credits.  And brands, like Virgin Mobile, have adopted the discourse of anti-globalisation campaigners. There is no hidden agen...

12. Interpreting the Emerging Market Risk Curve
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...lass towards the new merchant and employment class. Wealth creation amongst a socially and economically mobile lower class does not imply that political governance is good, democracy is present or t...