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Global health and development
GiveWell
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
Religion
Cash transfers
GiveWell Change Our Mind Contest
GiveDirectly
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Malaria
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Forum Prize
Economics
Economic growth
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Charter cities
Randomized controlled trials
Technological completion conjecture
Charter Cities Institute
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[Give Directly] Sending a basic income to one of the world’s poorest places
Bob Jacobs
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You Don’t Have to Call Yourself an Effective Altruist or Fraternize With Effective Altruists or Support Longtermism, Just Please, for the Love of God, Help the Global Poor
Omnizoid
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The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections
GiveWell
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Why development aid is a really exciting field
MathiasKB
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GiveWell’s Moral Weights Underweight the Value of Transfers to the Poor
Trevor Woolley
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Hugh Thompson Jr (1943–2006)
Gavin
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r.i.c.e.'s neonatal lifesaving partnership is funded by GiveWell; a description of what we do
deanspears
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Don’t just give well, give WELLBYs: HLI’s 2022 charity recommendation
MichaelPlant
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The elephant in the bednet: the importance of philosophy when choosing between extending and improving lives
MichaelPlant
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Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
Gavin
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AMA: Sean Mayberry, Founder & CEO of StrongMinds
Sean Mayberry
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Our recommendations for giving in 2022
GiveWell
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James Lovelock (1919 – 2022)
Gavin
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Tree planting cost-effectiveness
Vasco Grilo
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I went to the Progress Summit. Here’s What I Learned.
Nick Corvino
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Cause Suggestion: Econ Literacy
Yonatan Cale
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Visualizing the development gap
Stephen Clare
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Altruism and Development - It's complicated...
DavidNash
8d
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Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge
Vadim Albinsky
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Inequality, well-being, and the problem of the unknown reporting function
BarryGrimes
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Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies
MichaelPlant
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Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Telecommunications in LMICs
Lauren Gilbert
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The case for Green Growth skepticism and GDP agnosticism
ErolaPons
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Economics and Population Growth Reading List
LuisMota
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Cause area proposal: International Macroeconomic Policy
arushigupta
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Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
2y
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Progress Studies Reading List
LuisMota
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BBC Future longform article on Progress Studies (including connection between progress and risk)
Garrison
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