whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...h 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 are beyond dispute. It\'s h...

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...ced to join any market, formal or otherwise. If people voluntarily join the formal sector because their profits increase and their ability is rewarded then, yes, I am in full agreement. But if p...

3. Overcoming the Conservation of Energy
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... possible for long. Without production, there is nothing to sell. Without anything to sell, there are no profits. Without profits a company doesn't need employees. Any large manufacturing comp...

4. The hazard of market dominance
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...ate by buying up smaller competitors to get larger volumes, decrease relative costs, and so increase their profits. They can differentiate their products by going upmarket and so charge higher prices...

5. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
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...ng society harm. However, who exactly is carrying the pain here? A penalty like that does more than take profits away from the company, it also reduces their ability to pay salaries, do maintenance,...

6. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
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...tical five-year-plans, but because of frenetic competition, frenzied innovation and the serious pursuit of profits. It is no accident that the poorest countries in the world are also those that demon...

7. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
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...ecretary. Political and social leaders give the impression that businesses are evil geniuses able to make profits, no matter what. Further, the oppressed masses of the world have to band together in...

8. Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
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...ly as unsustainable, unaffordable and, frankly, not ethically justifiable." Despite this loathing of profits and distaste for the private sector, when it was time for the replacement of her own ...

9. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
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...o. Any person who is employed is not there because of the benevolence of the employer but to increase the profits of the business. If your actions do not improve production and efficiency then no r...

10. Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
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...ook advantage of lower borrowing costs to redevelop themselves. This spending helped other companies' profits, increased consumption as salaries rose and created a more confident and wealthier mi...

11. Africa, China and Investment
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... a piece of land into productive capacity Africa's only hope is with the self-interest and pursuit for profits that drives foreign investors. Chase them away at your peril. ...

12. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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...per and that, just this once, Murdoch has put his passion for owning such a prestigious newspaper ahead of profits. The Wall Street Journal's most significant competitor is The Financial Times, al...

13. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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...ot your mind. A government or society can vote that you run your company at a loss, that you yield up your profits to them, but they cannot make you put your imagination and ability to their use. That...

14. Department of inJustice: the corruption of high office
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...ebtors courts and the stigma of insolvency. The liquidation profession is appallingly corrupt with large profits for those being assigned big cases. The following case history written by Dr John Gro...

15. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
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...ers. The shares can return value in a few ways but the main ones are through dividends (a division of the profits in proportion to shareholding each year) or capital gains from the appreciation of th...

16. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...;We would rather that workers remain unemployed than be exploited by capitalist corporations who only seek profits." Striking for jobs; marching for poverty It is the South African union movem...

17. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
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...; In 1998, Walt Disney, who faced losing their copyright of Mickey Mouse in 2003 after 75 years of massive profits, supported the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act in the US to increase their tradema...

18. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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... you took our computer away, we would save and buy another. For it has opened our world and increased our profits," says a peasant farmer, in a shed housing a battered desktop PC, surrounded by ...

19. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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...is essentially a local monopoly; inefficient and abusive of an asymmetry of information.” There are profits to be made by developing products that are aimed at the poor.  If we improve con...

20. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
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...ition to focus business strategy, most daily attention is aimed at internal politics, scheming to increase profits while allowing the underlying infrastructure to rot, and blaming poor performance (li...

21. Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
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...d time with.  Donors take note and back off for a while from the entire development sector. NGOs, nonprofits, community benefit or public benefit - whatever you wish to call them - are run by ma...

22. Rating to create a market; questions and answers
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... see which delivers best results; consultants compare return-on-equity measures to see who delivers better profits.  The purpose is not to compare approaches, or define the mechanisms by which th...

23. Coffee, the miracle of poverty, and other wonders
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...lled markets gradually lose control of being the single source of information it is hoped that more of the profits will go down to the producers. ...

24. Should charitable organisations be allowed to compete with businesses?
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...ir own right (such as Oxfam or Greenpeace).  Should these organisations continue to be treated as non-profits, and not subject to taxation, if part of their operations generate profits? It is a ...

25. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
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...a revolutionary.  His intention is to make money for himself and his investors by undermining the fat profits that existing businesses are already making.  The reason he is able to do so is ...

26. The Feedback Loop
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...nsumers will have such a demand for the product that they will choose to pay more. This will lead to large profits and encourage other entrepreneurs to provide the same product. As the supply of the p...

27. Terms of Use
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28. Tips
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Tips for Donors At Whythawk, we believe that it is essential to support well-managed charities and non-profits to ensure the continued development of those marginalised by state failure. To that end,