whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

...thing your article misses completely is the fact that the design of these goods was a US design and therefore the responsibility lies directly with the US. The onus should be on the importer to check ...

2.
(Comments)

...bwe? Are the leaders who create these hell-holes not responsible for their own actions? How on earth do you lay responsibility for these disasters at the feet of leaders of companies that sell cars,...

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

... an emergency service that assisted over 15,000 people in 2007 at a cost of R 20 million. Their corporate social responsibility spend is now 4.6% of their company profits. They are not obligated to ...

4. When no-one is held accountable, everyone suffers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ons of command in both government and the parastatals he is finding that there is no-one who is capable of taking responsibility for sorting things out. As Friederick Hayek said, "In a competiti...

5. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tive, you can’t punish individuals as if they’ve done something deliberate." Without individual responsibility there can be no action. Without action there can be no innovation. N...

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

...ves who complain that hospitals profit from people's illness. Firstly, the promises of the state are not the responsibility of private businesses. One does not whine that clothing retailers prof...

7. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

... many, such as Ehrenreich, would rather their children deal with environmental disaster in the future than accept responsibility for their own actions right now. ...

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

... economy recovering from years of Communism and dictatorship. As Iraq has proven to any doubters, simply handing responsibility to people unused to it can result in chaos. This is something that giv...

9. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

... are the cries of a child discovering that his parents don't know all the answers, that adulthood beckons and responsibility is all-consuming. You can be ignorant or you can be involved. Attempti...

10. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...believe that new media companies that provide more and more of the means for global communications have a special responsibility" he said. "They have an obligation to ensure that the basic h...

11. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
(Analysis/Analysis)

...all communication; good and bad, constructive and destructive.  That is not the fault of the medium, but the responsibility of those who use it. By going so far as to deny the right to free speec...

12. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

.... Their focus is on the future of media and numerous presentations will focus on all aspects of the potential and responsibility of the news media. Gavin O'Reilly, Group Chief Operating Officer o...

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

...d, "Decisions may as well be made by a pie-eating contest." He found it difficult to create a system of responsibility and order in a community so diametrically opposed to the concept. ...

14. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ospect of systematic change envisaged by the open-source technology movement. “With great power comes great responsibility,” as Spiderman would have it. Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder ...

15. Climate Change: measurement, responsibility and risk
(Analysis/Analysis)

The debate about Climate Change is increasingly acrimonious and defensive.  At core is conflict over whether or not anthropomorphic (human) carbon emissions are responsible for global warming. T

16. AIDS and the cost of doing nothing
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e problem, but the money spent on large-scale education programs is also achieving little by way of awareness and responsibility. South Africa launched a five-year HIV/AIDS strategy in late 2006, vow...

17. Mama Jackie - the "Angel of Soweto" - assaults a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

In December, when introducing our conference on Responsibility, Reputation and Risk, we mentioned Jacqueline Maarohanye - the principal of Ithuteng Trust in Soweto – as an example of the embarr

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

...s and services, distorting the local economy and putting local organisations out of business. Development is the responsibility of the beneficiary.  The donor’s responsibility is in commun...

19. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

...s and services, distorting the local economy and putting local organisations out of business. Development is the responsibility of the beneficiary.  The donor’s responsibility is in commun...

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

...older of the tranche 1 CLN. The purpose of this SPV is two-fold. In the first instance it isolates the long-term responsibility for the management of the loan portfolio, thereby creating a specialize...

21. AIDS-related illnesses cost South African businesses up to R 2.2 billion per year
(Analysis/Analysis)

... they result in further and unnecessary hardship.  Further reinforcing the need for corporate leadership and responsibility in wellness initiatives, Dr Nosel says, "These changes reduce thei...

22. The quiet nobility of the men by the side of the road
(Analysis/Analysis)

...t is unlikely that people will learn to hold their leaders to account if those same leaders are divorced from any responsibility for their people’s well-being. Social development focuses more o...

23. The danger of wanting to believe in the power of good intentions
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ssional development agencies is this: if the poor knew what to do to help themselves they'd be doing it. The responsibility of people who wish to do good is to do far more than simply give themse...

24. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the f...

25. Reputation Risk Conference
(Events/News)

“Responsibility, Reputation, and Risk” is a one-day conference to assist companies to develop a system of aligning their social responsibility budgets to causes that can serve their core b

26. Responsibility Reputation Risk - a conference on corporate social investment
(Events/Events)

...ore a major corporation is embarrassed by association with corruption and incompetence at a large charity. “Responsibility, Reputation, and Risk” is a one-day conference to assist companie...

27. The Responsibility Gap
(Analysis/Analysis)

...the poor’s failure to participate that ensures their increasing despair. In a similar way, it is hardly the responsibility of fit people to help the terminally obese get up and exercise. That is...

28. The Feedback Loop
(Analysis/Analysis)

...is the result of the body’s inability to control the appropriate level of insulin, which - in turn - is the responsibility of the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. If they don’t measur...

29. Unlock the Value in Emerging Markets
(Static Content)

...n and risk within the informal sector by only working with organisations and companies dedicated to transparency, responsibility and effectiveness – the same standards to which you hold yourself...