Looking at effectiveness: ideas from the couch.

Good Ideas, through the Looking Glass

An entire potpourri of ideas is listed from the past decades of Computer Science and Computer Technology. Widely acclaimed at their time, many have lost in splendor and brilliance under today’s critical scrutiny. We try to find reasons. Some of the ideas are almost forgotten. But we believe that they are worth recalling, not the least because one must try to learn from the past, be it for the s...

Aid effectiveness: Looking at the aid-social capital- growth nexus

We examine the impact of institutional quality and social capital on aid effectiveness. We find strong evidence that social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover, once we account for the role of social capital and institutions, the impact of policies tend to disappear. These findings have important policy implications as they indicate that conditioning aid allocation on ‘...

Looking at Globalization of English in the Context of Internationalism

The present study is an attempt to provide a current synopsis of World Englishes within globalized communities, as well as theoretical and applied feasibility of global linguistic features of English as an International Language (EIL). To do so, first, three main reactions against the spread of English by scholars around the world are discussed. Then, the possibility of describing and teaching ...

Looking at the End from the Beginning

Looking at the evidence.

The requirement that medical treatment is ‘evidencebased’ has become an essential part of modern healthcare practice. In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has developed guidance to achieve national consensus on best practice. The role of NICE has often attracted controversy, particularly when expensive new treatments are considered on the basis of cost-eff...