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 .p128 Sweatshops: bad reputation, but the best alternative available in most 3rd world countries
 .p131 fast transition to modern economy - the west took a century, Asian tigers took a few decades
 .p132 shutdowns: laid off workers to subcontractors and prostitution
 .p134 fair-trade: 1% to 10% of higher price reaches producers, lower wages for workers
 .p134 Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (ftepr.org ) [[ https://web.archive.org/web/20230129064631/https://ftepr.org/wp-content/uploads/FTEPR-Final-Report-19-May-2014-FINAL.pdf | Report ]]
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Doing Good Better

... Effective Altruism ...

William MacAskill, Hillsboro Lib. 171.8 MACASKILL 2016

  • p001 Windmill water pumps, long waits on windless days

  • p002 Ronnie Stuiver, merry-go-round PlayPump fail

  • p008 Kremer: deworming children (pennies per treatment) increased school participation by 25%

  • p012 https://www.givewell.org/ ... $5000 per life saved

  • p012 https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ Giving What W Can

  • p018 Global top 1% - greater than $52K/year, top 5% $28K/year, top 10% 16K/year, top 15% $11K/year
  • p023 100x multiplier - expect a dollar to benefit the poorest 100 times as much as it benefits you
  • p024 Graph comparing US/India (Angus Maddison 2008), India seems approx 160 years behind at $2K GDP
  • p030 James Orbinski Red Cross in Uganda, triage, let many die to maximize outcome for most
  • p034 QALY quality adjusted life year
  • p038 Dialysis average quality of life 56%, most people estimate average 39%
  • p039 "Doubling income increases subjective well-being 5%"
  • p045 Sub-Saharan Africa life expectancy 1950 36.7y, 2015 56 years
  • p045 Conflict deaths 12M since 1973; smallpox was 3M per year, eradication saved 5 times more lives
  • p052 Effectiveness Graph, 1 QALY: Kaposi's sarcoma $50K, Condom promotion $500, Antiretroviral therapy $200, Bed net $100

  • p059 2011 Sendai Earthquake: external assistance was not required. 2010 Haiti and 2008 Sichuan earthquakes far worse

  • p061 $50K to train a guide dog, $100 to cure developing world person of blindness.
  • p061 Cancer versus third world malaria, 60 times discrepancy.
  • p065 One extra US doctor, 40 year career, 160 QALYs, 4 lives saved ... Ethiopia extra doctor, 12000 QALYs

  • p067 1966 38yo MD Donald Henderson WHO goal, wipe out smallpox in 10 years, last natural case 1977 in Ethiopia

  • p068 instigated by Viktor Zhdanov in 1958

  • p072 Scared Straight did more harm than good

  • p076 Earning to give

  • p080 Fukushima meltdown due to intentional dismissal of natural disasters during planning

  • p082 micromort

  • p088 expected value from consumer or voter choice isn't "1", but close.
  • p094 politics, research, and entrepreneurship highly competitive with earning to give.
  • p097 US 21T CO2eq/year social cost $670 for median 2 to 4℃ , but 5% risk of 6℃ and small risk of 10℃

  • p103 Books for Africa vs DMI health education vs Give Directly M-Pesa direct transfer

  • p108 books: no effect, DMI $360 per saved life (evidence weak), Give Directly more scalable but less effective

  • p122 Give Directly DMI Deworm Schistosomiasis Malaria Living Goods Iodine Global Network

  • p128 Sweatshops: bad reputation, but the best alternative available in most 3rd world countries
  • p131 fast transition to modern economy - the west took a century, Asian tigers took a few decades
  • p132 shutdowns: laid off workers to subcontractors and prostitution
  • p134 fair-trade: 1% to 10% of higher price reaches producers, lower wages for workers

  • p134 Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (ftepr.org ) Report

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