whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

..., and governments in absolute power start forgetting that they\'re employs and start thinking they\'re the parents of particularly stupid children....

2. After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hed could not better themselves. The only educated people would be those who are fortunate enough to have parents with sufficient cash to pay for their educations. Students who borrow money in order...

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

...aders following staged elections. The war became a sordid misery of rape, looting, and bribery as Russian parents attempted to keep their children away from the draft. The destruction wasn’t o...

4. The errors of selection and confirmation bias
(Analysis/Analysis)

... low-life hack myself, I consider it our role to inform and to hold leaders to account, not to be like the parents of children learning how to walk for the first time and applauding their every mispla...

5. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

...about personal enrichment? Independence in Zimbabwe came at a high cost. Many lost their lives and homes. Parents never saw their children and many grew up as orphans. One man emerged from the war a ...

6. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
(Analysis/Analysis)

... million learners in 2007; around R 8,800 per learner. And this is before the contributions required from parents to complement the subsidy. According to PSSA (Private Schools South Africa) the major...

7. Black Diamonds and the trouble with statistics
(Analysis/Analysis)

... middle class do all over the world (average income R 7 712 per month). And one last group.  Young parents.  Most of whom are single mothers.  This group is exploding at 60% growth...

8. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
(Analysis/Analysis)

...for generations. They are so common amongst children that they are normally abbreviated together as MMR. Parents all across the world have immunised their children using a variety of vaccines. In 1...

9. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e victims' flesh as a warning to others. Children, some as young as eight, were forced to batter their parents to death, then eat their brains before being sent to the front or used as sex slaves....

10. Unlearning helplessness: how donors reinforce poverty and dependency
(Analysis/Analysis)

...th ways. Abused women have friends who tell them that they are just awful with men, bullied children have parents who think of them as weak, and the teacher of lazy students doubts they have the abil...

11. A story of an African Orphan
(Analysis/Analysis)

...inter-linked cottages to accommodate a foster parent along with four or five children. Usually, the foster parents are destitute grandmothers who will then take on additional children at the cluster h...

12. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

...f educational aristocracy where the children of the rich have greater access to opportunities. Fee-paying parents flee poorer schools which become ever poorer and less able to serve the needs of thei...

13. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o way of being rewarded and bad schools no way of being shut down. A recent innovation has been to present parents with vouchers that allow them to pay their children’s annual fee at school dire...