Have you read Thomas Pogge? He’s written on a lot of this. Specifically debt relief and reform of intellectual property laws so that life-saving drugs are available to the global poor.
My sense is focusing on some of this may indeed be more high-impact than the donations to AMF or GiveDirectly because the returns to lobbying on this could be quite great. I’m unaware of groups working on this in a very effective way though.
Also, aside from foreign aid, much of it is indirect or negative (e.g. we just stop doing x rather than proactively help by doing y), and there’s a possibility people could be biased toward focusing on these sorts of things because people tend to respond more to negative obligations than positive ones.
Have you read Thomas Pogge? He’s written on a lot of this. Specifically debt relief and reform of intellectual property laws so that life-saving drugs are available to the global poor.
My sense is focusing on some of this may indeed be more high-impact than the donations to AMF or GiveDirectly because the returns to lobbying on this could be quite great. I’m unaware of groups working on this in a very effective way though.
Also, aside from foreign aid, much of it is indirect or negative (e.g. we just stop doing x rather than proactively help by doing y), and there’s a possibility people could be biased toward focusing on these sorts of things because people tend to respond more to negative obligations than positive ones.