whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ment. It is global organisations like the World Bank, and large corporations like Monsanto, McDonalds and Walmart. Human beings are pathetic, ignorant and helpless creatures lying on our spindly bac...

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

...e." Remainders are the clothes ordered by major chains on a sale-or-return basis and then returned. Walmart and other major chains used to do this a great deal in the 1980s. It wasn't poss...

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

...a year.  The total cost runs into significantly more than this. Michael Strong, of FLOW, writes that Walmart has, by the simple expedient of purchasing $ 23 billion of goods a year from China, a...

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

..., cut their losses and move elsewhere. Give businesses a measurable problem and they will solve it.  WalMart – a US-based retailer – has frequently been accused of causing environmen...