whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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

...tate exists largely to protect contract and the enforcement of property rights. Individual rights and the welfare state are a relatively recent development. And you can't have these without taxe...

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

... who have no such capacity? If you are healthy and able then there is no excuse for you to sit at home on welfare, and be paid to drink and be bored, by the state. If you are too old to work, or too...

3. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...uality of opinion and methods of interaction; law societies, journalists, rate-payers associations, animal welfare groups, child welfare, tourism societies, NGOs, charities … anyone or anything...

4. Interpreting Emerging Market Risk Curves
(Static Content)

...ption and mismanagement of fund leads to a diminishment of the funds themselves, as well as in the health, welfare or environmental metrics that the funds were meant to address. These are worthy conce...