whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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Laws / rules governing economic interactions have to consider more than just a present situation. What is different about Microsoft converting their popularity into a monopoly \"rent\" situation from

2. When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the majority shareholder. Most of the companies did what all companies do when governments rewrite the rules on them. They whimpered a bit, smiled for the media ... and acquiesced. It is difficult...

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

...39;t very surprising that most business owners choose not to go into manufacturing. Voters decided the rules that govern business by majority, and the tiny minority of entrepreneurs priced in their ...

4. Africa, China and Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

...en who demand respect for their property rights many are now courting China which asks for none of these rules. In only two years China has gone from virtually no interest in Africa to its third larg...

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

...t to become self-sufficient. A government that has become so corrupt that it is incapable of supporting rules of law, recognition of property rights and defence of those rights is going to have a lar...

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

...ticular need, and the other is not - or should not - trying to be something it's not. To all these rules, there are exceptions. I had a college buddy find me on LinkedIn, and I've found ...

7. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
(Analysis/Analysis)

...most heavily on government workers in the police and parts of the bureaucracy that enforced Mugabe's rules; these are also critical departments for restoring the state - the failure of Iraq was pu...

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

...prices on essential products at low prices to benefit the poor. And, when business owners flouted those rules, he arrested them. The results have been precisely what market-economists, such as mysel...

9. South Africa's two tiers
(Analysis/Analysis)

...illion per annum, the informal sector is extremely small. Yet it is home to 60% of the population. The rules that enforce the informal sector also enforce its isolation. There is no way out. Any e...

10. The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
(Analysis/Analysis)

...is a regression to the past of city-states. Each community makes up its own market and enforces its own rules. A central state must engage with each on its own rules. The central state may be incom...

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

...re that their advice is based on impartial research. After Enron... So many justifications for the new rules introduced to curb financial excess, to reign in "irrational exuberance", begin...

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

... exception is Africa. Here NGOs and international development groups have ensured that countries impose rules they can't afford and perpetuate the cycle of poverty. The strategy for development ...

13. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...does the same with their agriculture. Union representatives and social activists claim that all of these rules that ensure equivalent labour practices and wages across the world are in the name of equ...

14. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...erhaps you think we should raise taxes on the rich, keep our high-standards in place protected by strict rules, and redistribute the wealth to the poor? Governments are famously bad at redistributing...

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

...aring instruments or have a debt:equity ratio greater than 30%; iii) the investment case - despite these rules the company must still offer stable and good returns. "Our intention is to be in the...

16. Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

... opt-in health system.  Simply demand of your own companies that they must comply with local health rules, be they CE or ANSI or even HACCP.  And that this must apply to their entire value c...

17. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...n the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.” Web 2.0 has more to do with the success of Googl...

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

...es ever further into the realms of ideas the entanglement of nations gets greater.  A common set of rules allows simple communication and straightforward transactions.  Those nations with fi...

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

...efore red lights while no vehicles traverse the green.  For most, it would never occur to break the rules and cross against red.  It may as well be a steel bar. It is a microcosm of society...

20. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rrency. And capitalism is no different from the internal combustion engine. An engine works by the same rules under a communist government as it does in a free-market democracy.  It’s just...