whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...esn\'t like stem cell research and has banned it. The EU hates GM and won\'t allow it. These are all MORAL decisions. Not based on profits. And morality is always up for debate whereas profits a...

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...deos. The destitute cannot afford these things. The only people making money out of the poor are the morally bankrupt leaders who claim to represent them, and the NGOs who follow around picking up...

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... influence of the rich and powerful.\" I would ask: who elected you? If you\'re so convinced of your moral superiority form a political party, enunciate your vision and the steps required to get t...

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You sound morally outraged. And you also sound as if you are unable to appreciate that we have two overlapping, and occasionally blurred, economies in South Africa. There is plenty of wealth in th

5. South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ny countries as they can find. Oil money gives them the cash they need to afford influence. And the US moral stature has been severely compromised by the ongoing humiliations in Iraq. Russia feels ...

6. Xenophobia and the end of the African Renaissance
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"We don't torture their soldiers when we capture them, not only because it is morally wrong, but so that they won't torture our soldiers if they are captured," argued one retired US

7. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y those who are making too many promises about what they can afford that find themselves in pain. It is moral that those responsible for making promises be held to account for those promises. If int...

8. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...enduring and important questions in economics is whether foreign aid helps countries grow ... There is a moral imperative to this question: it is a travesty for so many countries to remain poor if a r...

9. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

... accept the unearned, neither in values nor in guilt, am here to ask the questions you evaded. Why is it moral to serve the happiness of others, but not your own? If enjoyment is a value, why is it mo...

10. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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... so there is no point to becoming healthy. It is a terrible problem. The simplest way to deal with the moral hazard of unemployment benefits is to say that the state will, through taxes, provide eve...

11. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tion. Polaroid divested. Did it help to end apartheid? Probably not. Did it salvage the reputations and moral probity of a few? Definitely. The modern web 2.0 companies permanently claim to be inven...

12. Have you paid your car guard today?
(Analysis/Analysis)

Moral outrage is bigotry with a halo.  And the moral citizens of our cities are whiffling about the high-streets breathing fire and brimstone, “Something! must be done!”  And don

13. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

I have had an ambivalent attitude to the One Laptop Per Child project ever since Nicholas Negroponte, stumped for an answer on the ultimate purpose of the computer, declared, "... there is no el

14. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

... communists and fellow travellers.  The Unions are now in the ascendancy after Mbeki squandered his moral authority on the twin perils of Zimbabwe and AIDS (in both cases the president supports i...

15. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage B
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...ion has lost the confidence of their community and few relatives visit the children anymore. Staff are demoralised and there is limited scope for improvement. Many of the most experienced staff have b...

16. Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e has been, “Why are you rating us?  We didn’t cause the problem,” in shocked and morally outraged tones.  That isn’t the point, and we cast no aspersions on the unde...

17. Zimbabwe at the Security Council; South Africa's unequivocal support
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...ed by an indifference to human rights and temporising with tyranny. We have now all but lost much of the moral high ground we once had under President Mandela.  Our window of opportunity is fast ...

18. While no-one was watching
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...hema).  We received a report about an organisation that was neglecting the children in their care. Moral hazard abounds.  The Department of Social Services will pay a foster parent a grant ...

19. Making money, doing good
(Analysis/Analysis)

...in which self-interest often results in the most good for the most people.  In the “Theory of Moral Sentiments” written earlier in 1759, Smith makes the case for sympathy in business ...

20. What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ing free food from the surpluses produced by your own protected farmers; as Europe does.  These are moral conundrums; creating the seeds for frustration. If you seek an emotional response from p...

21. "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
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...uals to grow to a sustainable size that offers a long term foundation. Only when we cannot choose, when moral values make the positioning of one ahead of another impossible, should we resort to count...

22. Bringing Capital to Small Enterprise
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...ansaction economically feasible, we must remain cognizant of the need for accountability and cautious of moral hazard. Diversification, combined with a bottom up approach to default risk can tempt th...

23. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e the worst schools get extra cash to assist them out of their difficulties.  This results in the ((moral hazard)) situation where ((teachers)) get paid MORE when they do a worse job.  The (...

24. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d more time assisting those who do not help themselves than those who try.  By doing so we create a moral hazard where we encourage people to be less effective than they could be. One of the mos...

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

...notebooks – using them as a light-bulb isn’t high on my list. There is also the question of moral hazard, that niggling thing that economists worry about.  If you give your child a m...

26. Vouchers and Individual Choice
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Moral hazard is what happens when I spend other people’s money on myself. I don’t care too much about what things cost, or how profligate I may be. But at least I get what I want. Things g