whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...e every bad idea that faux academics and political scientists come up with gets dumped here. Instead of sharing best practice, Africa gets idealism and morality plays. The madness must be stopped....

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...elieve we are helping to make the world a better place. And you could do your bit for the world too, by sharing what you know, as we already do. Please let us know if you link or mention us, so we...

3. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
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...io manager, was started in June 1992 and is South Africa's first, and one of the world's oldest, Shari'ah compliant funds. We are at lunch at a Jimmy's Killer Prawns, celebrating the f...

4. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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...hat is happening with open-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 sp...

5. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
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...Skype, Joost promises “infinite choice, and TV that is truly interactive.”  The revenue sharing model is attractive to media producers, and gives them the opportunity to reach an inte...

6. The redistribution of poverty
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...; In reality the impact is closer to poverty redistribution; moving poverty from one group of people and sharing it with everyone. While there is only a finite amount of cash in any economy, there is...

7. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
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...otectionist.  Patronising because they are maintaining a relationship of superiority over us by not sharing their knowledge about how to develop to their level; and protectionist because, by thei...

8. Winston Churchill
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill