whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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I\'m no expert, but I would imagine the resistance to land ownership is due to entrenched models of wealth/power distribution by those already in power. If so, it makes the resulting poverty doubly t

2.
(Comments)

... the same thing as got Europe and the US out of the mire: stability, accountability, and respect for private ownership of one\'s capital (be that labour, land or products)\" valid point, but it is un...

3.
(Comments)

...hile. Here\'s a definition for you from dictionary.com: capitalism is \"an economic system based on private ownership of capital\". None of this \"the concentration of economic power in the hands of...

4.
(Comments)

...ected (though never proved) that both car guards and street vendors are subject to similar structures of \\\"ownership\\\" to those that exist in the formal economy. By this I mean that they are ruled...

5. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
(Analysis/Analysis)

Walking through London a week ago, I was conscious of how much of the city is built on foundations that are hundreds of years old. The London Underground – the world's first inner-city mas

6. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...mes and software. Cost isn't what is keeping the world's poor from using the Internet. It is state ownership of the infrastructure required to access it that does it. The Eskoms of the worl...

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

...e improvement or the land are theirs to trade. Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist, declared that land ownership amongst the currently impoverished has the capacity to unlock trillions of dollar...

8. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...esson few governments in Africa have cared to learn. Last week saw Robert Mugabe's thuggish regime claim ownership of Olivine, a large cooking-oil producer. Many governments believe that business...

9. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nite thing. Whole industries, such as telecommunications or electricity production, may be protected. Land ownership by foreigners may be illegal. Redistribution policies, such as local ownership l...

10. Investment cannot happen if the market isn't private
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ode, a property economist, a report has been sent to government on the development of policy on foreign land ownership. Suggestions range from a total moratorium on the sale of all land to foreigners...

11. Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ment blocks in Africa.  Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South.  Every sector of South African business is repr...

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

...;re discussing third-party property rights. By that I mean that, any contractual dispute (whether about the ownership of property, ideas or products, or a legal wrangle) can be sorted out by a recogn...

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

... the same thing as got Europe and the US out of the mire: stability, accountability, and respect for private ownership of one's capital (be that labour, land or products). Since poor countries can...

14. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o;s.  How do they make money when the music isn’t in a box?  How do they keep control of the ownership of that music?  So they shut it out and attacked peer-to-peer network sites....

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

...se knowledge of their community, their weakness is their inability to focus on that strength. Rating Factors Ownership, Governance, and Management Demonstration is a registered Section 21 company, not...

16. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...ntinue to be exercised.  To date, though, oversight appears to have been consistent. Rating Factors Ownership, Governance, and Management Demonstration is a Pty (Ltd) and are subject to a...

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

...eir support which has allowed Demonstration to continue their current level of operations. Rating Factors Ownership, Governance, and Management Demonstration is a registered charity and has a boa...

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

... character of the organisation is of benefit to the community and well received by all. Rating Factors Ownership, Governance, and Management Demonstration is a charitable trust governed by ...

19. "Heads or Tails" ... resolution to a difficult choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a promised open-invitation only; a belief importantly distinct from socialist ideologies that call for equal ownership. The distinction between society and the individual, and the necessary arbitratio...

20. The Tyranny of Red Lights
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ave no ability to actively engage, then they don't bother.  When land is taken away and there is no ownership, when workers don't experience the products of their labours, when politician...

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

...at will assist me to earn a living.  If I live in a society that doesn’t allow for the individual ownership of property, then I may never make that investment in the first place.  I&rs...