whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...ebate is that long-term charity is not – by any stretch of the imagination – the path to economic prosperity. "We find little evidence of a robust positive correlation between aid an...

2. Everything is coming up Capitalism
(Analysis/Analysis)

... new book by William J. Baumol, et al, "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity", is a healthy attempt to contextualise the different forms of market econ...

3. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

...that, where the underlying framework of an economy is wrong, you cannot get economic growth, job creation and prosperity.  Cricket highlights the signal failures in economic policy. Across the s...

4. The best bridge out of poverty is over the future of cash
(Analysis/Analysis)

National prestige is not only measured by the weight of population but also by the economic prosperity and growth that citizens enjoy.  Countries that may be minnows when it comes to absolute num