There’s a shortfall of evidence around the topic of human trafficking, which my colleague explores in this report on human trafficking. Innovations for Poverty Action explores this in some new reports here, and here.
My sense from a cursory overview of the problem and tentative solutions: human trafficking is an important cause (comparable in scale (DALYs) to a problem like maternal disorders, but the solvability is of much lower confidence than for problems of similar or greater significance, such as malaria deaths.
For instance, evaluators have strong confidence—based on lots of robust academic peer-reviewed and RCT evidence—that we can prevent a death by malaria for $3-5k.
We don’t have comparably strong evidence for preventing human trafficking (and if there is, I’d love to see it!)
There’s a shortfall of evidence around the topic of human trafficking, which my colleague explores in this report on human trafficking. Innovations for Poverty Action explores this in some new reports here, and here.
My sense from a cursory overview of the problem and tentative solutions: human trafficking is an important cause (comparable in scale (DALYs) to a problem like maternal disorders, but the solvability is of much lower confidence than for problems of similar or greater significance, such as malaria deaths.
For instance, evaluators have strong confidence—based on lots of robust academic peer-reviewed and RCT evidence—that we can prevent a death by malaria for $3-5k.
We don’t have comparably strong evidence for preventing human trafficking (and if there is, I’d love to see it!)