Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society. Monday, January 31, 2011. About the month of January. As you probably already know, I am migrating my blog activity from this blogsite to a TrueValueMetrics blogspot site. There has not been a lot of blogging activity in large part because of my work on upgrading a website to make the TrueValueMetrics. Org database easily accessible to people interested in what we are doing. Thursday, January 6, 2011.

Education is the foundation for the future. Friday, February 29, 2008. How important is education? How to make it the best it can be? Most people seem to understand that education is important . but how to make it the best it can be is a much more difficult challenge. It was also widely recognised that the lack of education was a constraint on development in much of the world some fifty years ago . The educational techniques that are .

Viable strategy for success in reducing the socio-economic burden of malaria in Africa. Thursday, May 1, 2008. MERG and the lack of accountancy expertise. A few months ago I wrote the following. It was addressed to Dr.

Management is about decision making . and solving problems, especially difficult ones. Management information is key . it needs to be timely and relevant. Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Tr-Ac-Net is of the view that a universal system of management information that provides accountability to the public for use of resources and.

Monday, March 31, 2008. What are the key metrics for microfinance. There has been a substantial growth in the use of microfinance as a modality for poverty alleviation. There has been a significant emergence of microfinance intermediaries . and the emergence of organizations helping to assess the credibility of these institutions. Thursday, March 27, 2008.

Doing our small part to make the world a better place. Thursday, February 11, 2010. This has been very convenient. Business has been able to report profit while destroying the society where people live . the stockmarket goes up, and a part of society prospers. CA has been designed to have some good aspects of old-fashioned accounting, but also to function in the fast moving modern era. Data acquisition is designed for mobile phone text message.

But big questions about how resources have been used. Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Getting an accounting 6 years later. The AIDS pandemic has a scale that is difficult to comprehend . and while there has been a substantial fund mobilization to address the crisis, there is a big question about the effectiveness of the interventions that have been funded. But this may be more difficult than it ought to be. The award from the U.

CIA has the rigor of GAAP accounting, but for all of society, not just the business entity. Thursday, February 4, 2010. Wednesday, April 30, 2008.

Big question about performance and cost effectiveness of development assistance. What might be better ways to use the resources? Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Hopefully this is going to change.

Migration is driven by socio-economic factors more than anything else. Mass migration starts when conditions are bad. Sunday, April 13, 2008. Migration is as old as history . but while travel is made much easier by virtue of technology . movement is more and more constrained by government. In New York in 2003. Value Adding and Value Destruction.