whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...might injure yourself or others if you did not know how to drive it. Is there any such similar and real risk to the child and the community with receiving the computers? If so, I would genuinely be in...

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

...making people personally responsible for the choices they make, one has a better chance of reducing the risk of penalising everyone. The current alternative – of not holding anyone accountable ...

3. Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s don't normally like to do that because they have to buy that money back and, in so doing, run the risk of increasing the fiscal deficit. Zimbabwe has found a nice way around this by discontinui...

4. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nt; it is price plunges that are bad for job creation. Subsidies and protectionist legislation run the risk of deflating a tremendous opportunity for the poor as rising prices stimulate renewed agric...

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

...also be called a profiteer, hoarder, speculator or a capitalist. What you are doing is to price future risk into your current financial situation. You have been told that future prices will be highe...

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

...structure in their drive to secure resources for their own industrial expansion.  This offers both risks and opportunities for Africa.  Once China becomes the most visible investor in Africa...

7. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
(Analysis/Analysis)

...iends, another for AT&T, another for Vodafone. Martin: The more credit cards you have, the more at risk you are for ID theft and fraud, but one of the downsides of the credit system is that &qu...

8. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...le: for the work of the industrialist who built it, for the work of the investor who saved the money to risk on the untried and the new, for the work of the engineer who designed the machines of which...

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

...e the relationship, though: a low distribution of power with a wide distribution of wealth does run the risk of fuelling corruption; while a concentration of wealth with a wide distribution of power c...

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

...ltural imperialism isn't limited to the US Linking their currency to the SA rand poses tremendous risks for South Africa. Money is based on fiat, or trust. The money supply must reflect the un...

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

...tartling take on many sacred cows. Hester-Amey is convinced that board-members should have exposure to risk; "some skin in the game," as she says. She is determined that boards must allow ...

12. After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ny claims is being performed." Whythawk has long held that companies outsource their reputational risk when they choose to associate themselves with development organisations. The relationship ...

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

...president of the International Centre for Journalists in Washington. Without insight and analysis news risks becoming irrelevant. "Reader's can suffer from media indigestion," says Den...

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

...t. Yahoo passed that information over to the Chinese police, and Shi was arrested. At great personal risk, Shi's mother Gao Qinsheng accepted the award on his behalf. What she said was simple ...

15. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tunately, sometimes – despite the low prices – the goods would still remain unsold. It was risky for everyone. Then along came some nifty new business relationship software by the likes ...

16. The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
(Analysis/Analysis)

... celebrity status by creating online followings and proven audiences. Media companies won't have to risk and invest in creating stars, they'll just offer contracts to the best and share in adv...

17. Guess which South African cellular company offers the best contract tariffs?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...free to dispute my figures and assumptions. As a disclaimer, you use these figures entirely at your own risk. See our terms of use. ...

18. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
(Analysis/Analysis)

...am.  "This means that, while we don't aim to outperform the other funds by taking on high-risk stocks, it also means that we don't fluctuate wildly when conditions change." In o...

19. What market is worth R 100 billion a year and is growing at 10.9%?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...or are intelligent and sophisticated consumers The poor love high-quality brands; they cannot afford to risk their money and will not experiment on new products unless there is an overwhelming reason ...

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

... to each other. They develop an understanding of the needs of each other as well as their capacity for risk and repayment. Records are kept. After a year of successful activities a microfinance ban...

21. Leveraging your good name; the power of a positive credit rating
(Analysis/Analysis)

In the Internet age, when so much information can be gathered about an individual and their behaviour, talk of privacy has become pervasive. One of the central themes of the capitalist age for the la

22. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
(Analysis/Analysis)

...-source is that customers are directly involved in product development and are sharing in the financial risk of that development. Any entrepreneur knows that they have to spend the time and money up ...

23. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant B
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...awk.com/ then you are not viewing the latest version of this document. You do this entirely at your own risk. ...

24. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...awk.com/ then you are not viewing the latest version of this document. You do this entirely at your own risk. ...

25. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage B
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...awk.com/ then you are not viewing the latest version of this document. You do this entirely at your own risk. ...

26. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...awk.com/ then you are not viewing the latest version of this document. You do this entirely at your own risk. ...

27. Demonstration Table of Ratings
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...awk.com/ then you are not viewing the latest version of this document. You do this entirely at your own risk. ...

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

...th impartial observers and scientists judging their results and offering “blame” is that it risks triggering defensive responses.  And rightly so.  The average person is not deli...

29. 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

30. South Africa and China, or why democracy isn't connected to economic growth
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rm, recently issued a statement of concern regarding South Africa's skills deficit:  "The risks facing Africa's largest economy in 2007 remain skewed to the downside due to a number ...

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

The predicament lies in balancing the risk and reward in an environment where the perceived risk of lending demands a premium the borrower cannot afford. Solutions therefore must see risk reduced to a

32. How do we prepare nonprofit organisations for the long term?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...of fate; and, undeniably, because zero to low return social funding is, in every instance, finite. The risk, and the current mind-set, is not to keep a sharp focus on the sustainability of funding an...

33. So how exactly do you invest in the Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... presenting exactly what those same people like to spend the little they have on, and in evaluating the risk of servicing that need. Prahalad’s book is a good start, and I recommend it whole-h...

34. The Tyranny of Red Lights
(Analysis/Analysis)

...public is asked to comment on ideas for job creation, to create jobs by starting businesses, to take on risk.  When anyone questions prevailing legislation that may prevent them starting a partic...

35. Rating Copyright and Terms of Use
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...is an opinion as to the credibility and reliability of an organisation. The rating does not address the risk of loss due to risks other than these, unless such risk is specifically mentioned. Whythawk...

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

...sponsibility in wellness initiatives, Dr Nosel says, "These changes reduce their health and injury risks, improve their health consumer skills and enhance their individual productivity and well-b...

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

...imulate the same epic development as in California.  Not without a similar level of enthusiasm and risk-taking from local entrepreneurs.Despite this lack of enthusiasm a large number of governmen...

38. Guide to Donating
(Analysis/Donation Tips)

...charities, but instead have targeted outcome goals for giving, such as providing anti-retrovirals to at-risk women in your community. Eliminate The Middleman Recognize that for-profit fundraisers, tho...

39. 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

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

...rom their core business. Unfortunately, this has the further result of exposing companies to additional risk; this time in fields significantly outside of their expertise or experience. Charities and ...

41. Poverty: when second best isn't good enough
(Analysis/Analysis)

... more important to the poor than they are to the rich. If you have very little money then you don't risk it on some untried product. You spend it on the tried and tested and reliable: famous mains...

42. 1 Why are development ratings necessary?
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

... gives commercial and public investors standardised information on which to monitor the performance and risk of their investments.    ...

43. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...usiness aims to sell. That implies the following criteria, used throughout the Whythawk Emerging Market Risk Curves: Poorest 20%: Market Opportunity: potential for social and economic mobility, a...

44. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
(Static Content)

...ng capital to small enterprise - Hermann Jeuschenak The predicament lies in balancing the risk and reward in an environment where the perceived risk of lending demands a premium the bor...

45. Unlock the Value in Emerging Markets
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...  Whythawk offers high-level seminars on understanding the informal economy, as well as rating the risk in the trust relationships that are necessary to work in such an unstructured environment. ...

46. Get Rated
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...c environments investors rely on information provided by independent rating organisations to assess the risk and potential of the vast number and range of companies competing for investment. In the i...

47. Our Analysts
(Static Content)

...x credit derivative transactions. Added to that he developed a model for the fair pricing of the credit risk of sovereigns, various corporate sectors and individual corporate organisations and the cal...

48. Terms of Use
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...filiated with Whythawk. Such linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. Whythawk makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or functioning of any s...

49. Why Use Whythawk
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...only businesses can provide.  And, without responsible interventions into the lives of the most at risk, there is no hope for meaningful social change and economic growth. More than a billion peo...

50. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...usiness aims to sell. That implies the following criteria, used throughout the Whythawk Emerging Market Risk Curves: Poorest 20%: Market Opportunity: potential for social and economic mobility, a...