whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. The Speculator: Pricing in the Future
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t trends, comes into play. Business owners behave in a similar way. They have to decide how to invest their resources now for a future return on that investment. The more risk they imagine, the more...

2. Exports and parliamentary laziness
(Analysis/Analysis)

... financial press only concentrates on mining?" The production of primary products – such as mined resources – is an easy one to cover. We dig stuff out of the ground and other people...

3. Podcast: China's expansion in Africa offers risk and opportunities
(Podcasts/Emerging Market Risk)

...ttle in the way of good governance and are aggressively creating new infrastructure in their drive to secure resources for their own industrial expansion.  This offers both risks and opportunitie...

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

...ve to this question: it is a travesty for so many countries to remain poor if a relatively small transfer of resources from rich countries could set them on the path to growth ... But if there is no c...

5. Zimbabwe: recovering the irrecoverable
(Analysis/Analysis)

...cally, extremely small. Zimbabwe, for all its current travails, is not. Zimbabwe has extraordinary natural resources and a highly educated local population. There are also 3 million of their most t...

6. People, Planet and Profits: the complexities of corporate governance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rate, and the people who perform." He summarises his strategy so: "The right strategy, the right resources, and keep out of jail." As for executives receiving shares as part of their...

7. Hedging and bundling; improving the efficiency of microlending
(Analysis/Analysis)

...hed women (men are not regularly involved in such things) with little income form a collective to pool their resources and lend to each other. They develop an understanding of the needs of each other...

8. While no-one was watching
(Analysis/Analysis)

...p; Staff moral is low.  They feel that they are not being paid adequately and are helping themselves to resources required by the children.  Management is remote and opaque. We are placing ...

9. A story of an African Orphan
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ystem is that the community itself is involved in looking after their children, rather than rely on external resources. This community committee-based childcare model can be successful as long as the ...

10. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...atest fashions, meet with our leaders and indicate their willingness to trade with us. We have minerals and resources they need; they make shiny things with buttons that go "bloop" that we ...

11. Bringing Capital to Small Enterprise
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...nsibility for the management of the loan portfolio, thereby creating a specialized entity with the requisite resources required for the administration and a vehicle that can be paid by SPV1 for this f...

12. The other losing battle: Africa's war on talent
(Analysis/Analysis)

...fe while earning well. In a recent international survey, the Corporate Executive Board polled senior human resources managers around the world about their main concerns.  Some 62% worried about...

13. Enterprise - Ratings and Scorecard overview
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...ents and focuses on three key aspects; physical infrastructure, information systems infrastructure and human resources. 1.4 Internal Policies and Procedures (IP) This scorecard aims to measure the d...

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

There is a naïve belief that, as the rich get richer, they consume more of the world’s resources and – in so doing – leave an ever dwindling amount of stuff over for the poor.

15. Does Africa need the most expensive school in the world?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...prah Winfrey)) is setting up but, as a I asked in a previous post, is this really the most effective use of resources? The most expensive independent schools in South Africa offering the best educati...

16. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

... punishing those who can afford to pay – or offer a lower standard of care as class sizes increase and resources become stretched. Parents will respond either by moving their children to privat...

17. Ithala and The Corruption Of Development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ome forward.  Without this, money itself will simply result in indefinite outcomes and a squandering of resources. ...

18. Guide to Donating
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...giving plans so that the organisation knows it can rely on the you and the charity doesn't have to waste resources and harass you by sending numerous solicitations.  This content is customis...

19. Lessons in sustainable development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...iscovered a forlorn rock where agriculture and deforestation had destroyed the environment and depleted food resources so badly that the island could no longer support its population. "Exactly,&q...

20. Tips
(Category List)

...continued development of those marginalised by state failure. To that end, we provide the following tips and resources to guide effective donations.  This content is customised for South Africa f...