whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...omputing - the School of the Air was launched. Teachers communicated with their students over ham-radio and thousands of kids got a first-class education remotely. If something similar were set up...

2. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ufficient reason to get one. There are 33,000 vacancies in state hospitals. Government administrators have thousands more unfilled positions. And this is just in the public sector. Clearly there i...

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

...forum where people can buy and sell these shares. Thing is a company can have millions of listed shares and thousands of shareholders. These are the actual owners. The shares can return value in a ...

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

...s of operating legally were below those of surviving in the extralegal sector ... and then watch hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs happily quit the underground.” The same is true of every ...

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

...ade the little heads on pikes. At least one man was skinned alive before his flesh was picked off and eaten. Thousands of young girls and women were repeatedly raped, thousands more people burned aliv...

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

...oilets are outside. Shacks lean up against each other. Accidents. Happen. Then the fires spread quickly. Thousands can be made homeless. This happens every winter. Since 1994, when we had our fir...

7. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e wake of the Iraq invasion.  Anyone who has watched Europeans turn out to protest in their hundreds of thousands about US aggression would imagine that Bush was their president. Enter the debate...

8. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...reat Satan” and the rule of democracy.  China’s communists murdered hundreds and imprisoned thousands after the peaceful student uprising in Tiananmen Square.  Yet the communists...

9. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a new process allows that process to become an opportunity for everyone. Websites like Springwise.com list thousands of business ideas, from the quirky to the mundane.  There is no lack of idea...

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

....  Students and their equivalent of hippies turn up all over the show.  Rural Poland plays host to thousands of eccentric aliens who enjoy the climate and set up schools where they teach in ...

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

...may become as iconic as the iPod; in which case – on its own – it will result in the creation of thousands of new jobs simply to produce it. Consider now the iPhone’s impact on othe...

12. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...conomic research organisation in Munich declares not.  By analysing data from a study involving tens of thousands of students in 31 countries organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operati...

13. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ot create all those jobs by providing a requirement for high-level technical skills at one business, but for thousands of suppliers at thousands of different low-level businesses. It is much cheaper ...

14. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...pment sector. Students and their equivalent of hippies turn up all over the show. Rural Poland plays host to thousands of eccentric aliens who enjoy the climate and set up schools where they teach in ...

15. 1 Why are development ratings necessary?
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...ey each year to maintain their tax-exempt status. Every time a significant social problem receives publicity thousands of people wish to offer their time and money to help. The question for all these ...