Priority ranking
Understanding
Related to Readings and resources database (Cause Area)
to investigate
Resources to check out
Health in poor countries → 80,000 Hours Problem Profile ~ 10 min
GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
Global development interventions are generally more effective than climate change interventions → EA forum post ~ 10 min
Ending poverty using charter cities → podcast ~ 2 hour 30 min
The Moral Imperative toward Cost-Effectiveness in Global Health → paper ~ 15 min
Global Poverty and the demand of morality → book chapter ~ 30 min
Famine, affluence and morality → paper ~ 30 min
Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact → article ~ 8 min
Flow-through effects → article ~ 6 min
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles → paper ~ 60 pages
A year’s worth of education for under a dollar and other ‘best buys’ in development, from the UK aid agency’s Chief Economist → podcast ~ 1 hour 30 min
Notes
Cause Prioritization considerations
- What causes is this cause more important than?
- What causes could be more important that this?
- How does this interact with other causes?