Not sure about economist, but you can always make the counter-argument that spending on charity will get the economic wheels moving as well, and in a much better direction. For example, spending on AMF would cause production of malaria nets, and then shipping them overseas, and then the malaria net would cause a mosquito to not bite a productive worker, and that worker would not be sick and lose work time, etc.
Not sure about economist, but you can always make the counter-argument that spending on charity will get the economic wheels moving as well, and in a much better direction. For example, spending on AMF would cause production of malaria nets, and then shipping them overseas, and then the malaria net would cause a mosquito to not bite a productive worker, and that worker would not be sick and lose work time, etc.
Thanks Gleb. Any suggestions for where else I could post/who else I could ask? I’m sure someone’s got to have put some numbers together!
Thanks! Ryan
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