whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...eem like a vanity project, if the product is a good and useful one. Now some of the possible issues that people have been blogging about as to the implematation (such as the adults in the communities...

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...ke so many things - the way a country treats foreigners is a good indication of the way it treats its own people. And I do believe one can label an entire country as being without ambition. After ...

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...st common-denominator wins\'. The history of every dictatorship, filled with starving, ill and destitute people, begins when some bright-spark decides that property-rights need \"revisiting\". The...

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...ompetitors cannot (as BA has just been found guilty of) collude to defraud the public, nor may they force people to buy their products. If net neutrality is to mean anything then it must set a plat...

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...t at the end of a gun. No-one should be forced or coerced to join any market, formal or otherwise. If people voluntarily join the formal sector because their profits increase and their ability is ...

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...formal economy, even if it were possible.It is a wonderful tool for understanding the true desires of the people living within that state.\" I think there are significant benefits for moving toward...

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...y it was intended. I called South Africa a \"microcosm\" and waved the \"race\" flag around the way many people (like Naomi Klein) do. The issues are not racial at all, but people like to believe th...

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...ify it with a response\" so: >South Africa has a mature black lead government >Many of the wealthiest people and surely the newly wealthy are black >Crime is not confined to next to the squatter ...

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... find no disagreement from me that poverty is outrageous. That 60% of the world\'s population, 4 billion people, are poor, is disgusting. What makes it more disgusting is how easy it is to fix. I...

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...ow as well as I do that the world economy is ovcerwhelmingly controlled by a very small minority of it\'s people. This is the problem. If you look at the performance of the dollar, you\'ll see the ...

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This is disingenuous. While \'anti-capitalism\' is a very broad term, most people who call themselves anti-capitalists are united by one thing: their belief in economic democracy. Our biggest critique

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... prove fruitless. I see from your blog that you have already made up your mind. Since: \"It\'s all the people suffering the effects of undemocratic decisions taken by a few people protecting the in...

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...vious experience is that there is no line between car guarding and trading. What seems to happen is that people become car guards, save up to purchase stock, and then start trading. A group of Kenya...

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... hands of young or old, can have a significant impact. Granted, that assumes that the device gets to the people... Thanks for the compelling argument and the sources. I\'ve just read the Amazon r...

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I agree with your analysis. Laptops are wrong for most people (rich or poor), and yet people keep getting them. See http://keystoneisit.blogspot.com/2006/11/case-for-notebook-computers.html for my ta

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In my opinion the top-down approach where millions are spent trying to reach people who couldn\'t care less if the taxi-driver they are commuting to work with drives recklessly as long as they make it

17. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
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...y mass-transit underground railway system – first opened in 1863. The underground allows 3 million people a day to get in and out of the city. The benefit to London of such infrastructure is ...

18. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
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... pay salaries, do maintenance, or make future investments. They can choose to absorb the cost, by firing people or reducing capacity; or they can pass on the cost through higher bread prices. In oth...

19. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
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...in Davos, "I’m not certain whether when there has been some shortcomings that we should punish people for that. Once decisions have been taken by a collective, you can’t punish indiv...

20. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
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...the poor, or raise taxes, making business a less efficient job-creator. It's going to be hard to get people to use less electricity if it doesn't cost them anything. Like the Californians, w...

21. Of Chiefs and Presidents
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... children and many grew up as orphans. One man emerged from the war a hero. Robert Mugabe, loved by his people and an envy to many leaders still under colonial oppression. He came with a lot of prom...

22. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
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...on of total economic income, is 34.2%. If anyone has control over the economy and over the services that people receive it is the state. So, in the two most important sectors of state spending &ndas...

23. Zimbabwe's winds of change are blowing once more
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... of former speaker of parliament, Cyril Ndebele. Mutasa said Mugabe was a charismatic leader loved by the people, adding that Dabengwa and Makoni were also to blame for the problems the country was fa...

24. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
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The queues in Zimbabwe, that shopper's paradise, were extra long this Christmas. Ordinary people were withdrawing their maximum daily allowance of Z$ 50 million while business owners were shunted

25. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
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...res once more by changes in the nature of demand. The long boom internationally has seen almost a billion people come out of poverty across Asia and Latin America over the past decade. As people beco...

26. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
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...; you have no idea whether it will go up or down or by how much. That becomes real speculation with some people buying, some refusing to purchase and everyone finding out only after the price changes...

27. Simba the Saviour?
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...ruling party predictably calling him a "sell-out." If that is what he is, then he is a sell-out people are willing to give an ear to. Makoni is widely respected amongst the ruling party, op...

28. Exports and parliamentary laziness
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...ndash; such as mined resources – is an easy one to cover. We dig stuff out of the ground and other people pay for it. The products require relatively little skill to produce and can leave the ...

29. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
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...se construction companies is reflective of the unprincipled conduct of business in seeking to always turn people's victories into enriching themselves," Malesela Maleka, SACP Spokesperson. A...

30. Searching for objective measures of value
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...een of critical interest to investors. Most of the time maintaining the value of any investment has left people feeling as if they were running across an icy lake in their bedroom slippers ... durin...

31. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
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...that doesn't hold. The peak times for electricity consumption happens to be 18h00 to 21h00 ... AFTER people come back from work and start preparing dinner, bathing, and watching television. In s...

32. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
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...ing reform at the IMF, he has been lecturing the US and Western Europe on their theft of valuable skilled people from our nation. Let's lay to rest this claim that skills are being plundered from...

33. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
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...as been actively looking for work in the past four weeks. When unemployment remains stubbornly high then people who have spent months looking without result give up. Since 2001 official unemployment...

34. 100 Days of Sodom
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...hold the right to 100 days of paid work per year. Didiza, as a representative of the state, is promising people the right to a job based on the premise that not having a job is sufficient reason to g...

35. Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
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...es to convert South Africa's landless poor into land-owning subsistence farmers. What happens if the people concerned want no such thing? What happens if what they really want is the rather more...

36. The Miracle of Investment
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...ope of improvement. Not much has changed. Except for the hope. Investors and entrepreneurs are unusual people. They can look at a derelict area and see opportunity and profit. It was a magnificen...

37. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
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...s poor because business owners and investors refuse to share the wealth of their companies with the "people". Last week the Free Market Foundation released the Economic Freedom of the Worl...

38. Africa, China and Investment
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...rnment scheme. Instead of capital being used to its best value the cash "windfall" received by people who haven't earned it gets spent. This increases the overall money supply without ...

39. China, Toys And The Tragedy of Xenophobia
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... has begun one of the most dramatic transformations in human history, shifting an astonishing 350 million people out of poverty. The fact that Chinese manufacturing is still very rudimentary, environ...

40. The spectre of loyalty over ability
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...nt. All that is important is your loyalty and devotion to my orders." It is no wonder that skilled people leave the country and we have to import artisans and engineers from abroad. Without a ...

41. Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
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...Speakers Program, that, “Without legislated BEE South African companies would never invest in black people.” Vuyo Jack, CEO of Empowerdex, speaking at the event, did his best to make the f...

42. Black Diamonds and the trouble with statistics
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Business people depend on research data to make decisions about if, when, where and how much to invest.  Without meaningful and reliable information poor investments can be made. In 2001 South

43. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
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...le: instead of buying two machines that would make a company twice as efficient and employ twice as many people, that company can only afford to buy one because of the extra tax costs. Think how muc...

44. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...etween market players breaks down. An informal market is really a fragmented localised market where only people who trust one another directly are prepared to trade with each other. Any central stat...

45. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
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...st, utilizes OpenID, but I do agree that lack of compatibility across platforms is a severe hindrance for people that want to establish cohesive online identities for themselves all over "teh Int...

46. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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...t to society is vast. This capacity to slough away dead tissue and rebirth itself is what terrifies most people about business. And one of our greatest businessmen, with an astonishing capacity for ...

47. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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... Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus. The story is simply told. At some point in human history people have turned against themselves. They no longer aspire to do anything more than enslave ...

48. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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...;s most educated and productive citizens are in exile and working in the UK and South Africa 4 million people need food aid; the average life-expectancy of Zimbabweans is 37 for men, and 34 for wom...

49. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
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...out". The self-fulfilment of hating The question is how has it come to this point? Why do so many people prefer the doubtful benefits of quackery, and rubbish the efforts of mainstream corpora...

50. Everything is coming up Capitalism
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...n their lumpy Communist-designed shoes what could be a better advert for the joys of Capitalism? Except, people forget. And, as in George Orwell's cerebral 1984 , there are Ministries of Informa...