As a data point, a few months ago an Italian friend mentioned hearing at an EA conference in ~2016 that Italy was not a priority country at the time. ~6 years later he was still very upset about it, he felt that the statement was racist and discriminatory.
I was very surprised by the reaction, as rational prioritization is a core principle of EA, and we don’t have infinite resources to focus on every single country, so I think we should be particularly/surprisingly sensitive when discussing these things.
Is this information public but buried in some long PDF report?
You can use https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants to look for country names/adjectives (e.g. “Czech”) and find some public grants. But I think that lots of grants are (understandably) not public.
As a data point, a few months ago an Italian friend mentioned hearing at an EA conference in ~2016 that Italy was not a priority country at the time. ~6 years later he was still very upset about it, he felt that the statement was racist and discriminatory.
I was very surprised by the reaction, as rational prioritization is a core principle of EA, and we don’t have infinite resources to focus on every single country, so I think we should be particularly/surprisingly sensitive when discussing these things.
You can use https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants to look for country names/adjectives (e.g. “Czech”) and find some public grants. But I think that lots of grants are (understandably) not public.
Why do you think it is “understandable” that lots of grants are not public?
I think a main reason is that many people don’t want their salaries to be public.