whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...and won\'t distribute medication even though it\'s been donated. The US government doesn\'t like stem cell research and has banned it. The EU hates GM and won\'t allow it. These are all MORAL dec...

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... Corporation as government as if there was not another way. There was a time in the US when most medical research was funded by the government, they arranged not only the testing but also the quest...

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...nesses will respond. Consider climate change. In the past year company investment into alternative energy research has gone from US$35 bn to US$72 bn and that is out of new business scenting an oppo...

4. The errors of selection and confirmation bias
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...ting the demise of positive thinking in South Africa. JP Landman, a well-paid executive at BOE Investment Research, declares that the messiness of the economy is a wonderful thing and that "it ...

5. When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
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... to become BEE compliant. The single exit price on pharmaceuticals has seen drug manufacturers remove their research and development departments from the country. One large multinational I spoke to (...

6. Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
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...otherwise be. One argument against free markets is that it leads to inequality between the rich and poor. Research indicates that the level of inequality is marginally higher in countries that are t...

7. 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

8. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
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...draw their blood. He gave one child a measles drug he was hoping to market in order to test the drug. His research was not authorised and he was not qualified to undertake it. Worse, he announced h...

9. After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
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...recommends that you purchase a particular stock you need to be sure that their advice is based on impartial research. After Enron... So many justifications for the new rules introduced to curb finan...

10. Getting Home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
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...igates regional development needs as well as emerging market business opportunities, has recently completed research into the informal sector in Harare and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. The transport sector c...

11. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
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...n a regular basis. He revealed the true extent of state torture in the suicide of Dr Neil Agget in 1982, he researched and presented the terrible torture and abuse that preceded the death of Steven Bi...

12. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
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...n their communities. It will take the shape of the people who brought it. Suburbia. In the course of our research we have spoken to dozens of large South African companies investigating the "b...

13. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...stand by the side of the road waiting for you to park. Then they guard your car. Whythawk Ratings is busy researching the car-guarding industry. Working entirely for tips (the vague hope that, arri...

14. Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
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... reporting the facts and allowing them to be debated, scientists are attempting to game the system. Recent research from a wide range of sources shows runaway global warming presenting itself on Nept...

15. Aggregation and collaboration: a guide to making money and doing good in poor nations
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South Africa should be one of the most sophisticated centres for innovations aimed at developing products for the world’s poorest nations; the so called “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyram

16. AIDS and the cost of doing nothing
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...young women’, concluded Professor Thomas Rehle, Director in the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). So, not only is the gover...

17. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
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...tes in comparable middle-income countries," declares Haroon Bhorat, director of the Development Policy Research Centre at the University of Cape Town. Bhorat goes on to indicate that the fault ...

18. Cry, The Beloved Country
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...o heal the wounds and bridge the rifts in those societies. In Kenya, Professor Job Bwayo, crusader for HIV research in Nairobi, was killed during a car hijacking.  In South Africa, David Rattray...

19. Western Cape economic development support agencies lack the capacity to halve unemployment
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...in the past 12 months. The average level of unemployment in the Western Cape is about 26% and, according to research conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council, this would equate to a requiremen...

20. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
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...ery:  “How does a wise investor make any investment decision at all?”  It starts with research.  Any private company wishing to invest has a plethora of data to call on, fro...

21. Millennium Development Goals and the Measurement of Change
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...er supply and sanitation Goal 7: create 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 b...

22. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
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...r.  But that still isn’t cheap enough. For those who think that computers may offer a solution, research by Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann of the CESifo economic research organisation ...

23. Guide To Volunteering
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Spend some time researching charities before you invest your time helping their endeavours With four in five charities reporting that they use volunteers, it is hard to imagine where the philanthropi

24. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
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...ome are ideas that have arisen from the blog and are presented here in a more detailed form. Some of the research is available only to subscribers (in order to subscribe, first register), some is ...

25. Terms of Use
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...out prior written authorization from Whythawk. To request such permission, contact Gavin Chait, Director of Research. In no event may the Whythawk trademarks, symbols, ratings, artwork or other visual...

26. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...er than August 2005. Please direct any queries to: The South African Human Rights Commission: PAIA Unit The Research and Documentation Department Postal address: Private Bag 2700 Houghton 2041 Telepho...

27. Privacy Policy
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..., commercial, and entertainment medium. On occasion, Whythawk will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted on i...

28. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
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...ome are ideas that have arisen from the blog and are presented here in a more detailed form. Some of the research is available only to subscribers (in order to subscribe, first register), some is ...

29. Terms of Use
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...out prior written authorization from Whythawk. To request such permission, contact Gavin Chait, Director of Research. In no event may the Whythawk trademarks, symbols, ratings, artwork or other visual...

30. Section 51 Manual for Whythawk Development CC
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...er than August 2005. Please direct any queries to: The South African Human Rights Commission: PAIA Unit The Research and Documentation Department Postal address: Private Bag 2700 Houghton 2041 Telepho...

31. Privacy Policy
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..., commercial, and entertainment medium. On occasion, Whythawk will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted on i...