whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...a if you don\'t know what it is: \"Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are mostly privately[1] owned and operated for profit...\" You\'re right tha...

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

...k reduced hours or send them home while keeping them on full pay. That isn't possible for long. Without production, there is nothing to sell. Without anything to sell, there are no profits. Wi...

3. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

In 1998 the US state of California partially deregulated electricity production and sales. The "partially" bit is where things came ungummed. The private companies that purchased the righ

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

... deliver on its promise. The resulting skills shortage and illness leads to reduced economic growth, limited production capacity, and product shortages. This mismatch between outcomes and promises ...

5. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
(Analysis/Analysis)

... any economic survey of agriculture. In the developed world agriculture is now only 2 – 3% of economic production. In South Africa agriculture is a "mere" 4% of total GDP. This shri...

6. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...uot;So," asked Jennings, "why is it that the financial press only concentrates on mining?" The production of primary products – such as mined resources – is an easy one to c...

7. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t this is precisely what the HandMade Project declares: "The accumulating environmental effects of mass production are a major cause of global warming and the poisoning of our air, water and soi...

8. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
(Analysis/Analysis)

...other way round. Business success does not mean that jobs will be created. Businesses act to maximise their production and efficiency. From the invention of the wheel, to the steam engine to the mi...

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

...erty law in Africa is not a very definite thing. Whole industries, such as telecommunications or electricity production, may be protected. Land ownership by foreigners may be illegal. Redistributio...

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

...uilding has gone into empowerment.” He pointed out that rising prices at the till have a lot to do with production shortages.  Companies should have been building new plants and factories t...

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

...tant numbers.  They got inflation wrong.  They got the rate of job creation wrong.  They got production numbers wrong.  And it wasn't until others pointed out inconsistencie...

12. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
(Analysis/Analysis)

..., but it is a particularly stupid argument where the goods are not. Large scale generators needed for power production are imported and subjected to massive taxes. This increases the cost of doing ...

13. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e? Or did she merely point out, 50 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, that any society that kills production has a finite bank account that will eventually be overdrawn? The world of Zim...

14. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ructure constraints: the general exile of capacity has degraded everything from sanitation, to water to power production, restoring this will take years. Revenge: the desire to revenge past injusti...

15. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

...he use of synthetic fertilisers to increase crop yields. He points out, in the Economist, that global cereal production tripled between 1950 and 2000, but the amount of land used increased by only 10...

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

... venture is the creator of all this content: everyone.  More than four million people have helped in the production of over seven million articles in 251 languages.  Over 1.7 million of thes...

17. The redistribution of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...; in an effort to cut the cost of basic foods to urban poor – that food prices are fixed at below their production cost, then farmers will stop farming to take advantage of the cheap food as wel...

18. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
(Analysis/Analysis)

...GOs hoping to use the bean to stimulate developing economies.  The collapse of trade barriers, a jump in production and a tendency by the largest roasters to treat coffee as a uniform commodity c...

19. Rating Copyright and Terms of Use
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Copyright © 2007 by Whythawk Ratings, P.O. Box 551, Sea Point, 8060 Reproduction or retransmission in whole or in part is prohibited except by permission. All rights reserved. All of the informa

20. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t in ((Darfur)) or those suffering under the dictatorship in ((Zimbabwe)).  They are not involved in its production and none of the materials required for its manufacture are sourced from hopeles...

21. Albert Einstein
(Analysis/Quotes)

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of dut

22. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
(Analysis/Analysis)

...te small-scale water technology to improve livelihoods Goal 8: produce research on water productivity in food production Goal 9: lower the cost of starting a new business The Copenhagen Consensus was...

23. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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... + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from government and the law Prospects for Local Production: the ease and potential for local business investment There are many ways to ...

24. Our Analysts
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...ience degree in 1995. Gerald Mashiri - analyst Gerald Mashiri conducts analysis and formative research in the production of individual development ratings. Gerald was born in Zimbabwe where he was inv...

25. Terms of Use
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...your use of this site, exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site. Development Ratings Reproduction or retransmission in whole or in part is prohibited except by permission. All r...

26. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...istration & Operations: Correspondence Author contracts Subscriptions records Sales records Stock records Production records Remuneration records Finances: Annual financial statements Assets inven...

27. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
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... + Independence of Law: the support that investors receive from government and the law Prospects for Local Production: the ease and potential for local business investment There are many ways to ...

28. Our Analysts
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...ience degree in 1995. Gerald Mashiri - analyst Gerald Mashiri conducts analysis and formative research in the production of individual development ratings. Gerald was born in Zimbabwe where he was inv...

29. Terms of Use
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...your use of this site, exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site. Development Ratings Reproduction or retransmission in whole or in part is prohibited except by permission. All r...

30. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...istration & Operations: Correspondence Author contracts Subscriptions records Sales records Stock records Production records Remuneration records Finances: Annual financial statements Assets inven...