“Improving health today has significant flow-on effects to the future, by ensuring people and their children are healthier, and better able to learn, work and make their countries prosperous. The earlier in time these health improvements are achieved, the more people benefit from these flow-on effects.”
“Interestingly, just as the returns on your investment would compound over time, donating
to a charity now may also yield compounding benefits.
In the case of donations to global poverty charities, the benefits that accrue to those
immediately helped by a particular intervention (e.g. those freed from intestinal worms
by ones donation to a deworming charity) also compound at a social rate of return.
The idea here is that the direct benefits of the intervention (e.g. improvement of an
individuals health) lead to societal knock-on benefits that compound over time (e.g.
increased productivity and likelihood to reproduce, which may themselves have beneficial
economic and non-economic spill-over effects on the rest of society).”
Explications of ‘social rate of return’:
“Improving health today has significant flow-on effects to the future, by ensuring people and their children are healthier, and better able to learn, work and make their countries prosperous. The earlier in time these health improvements are achieved, the more people benefit from these flow-on effects.”
“Interestingly, just as the returns on your investment would compound over time, donating to a charity now may also yield compounding benefits. In the case of donations to global poverty charities, the benefits that accrue to those immediately helped by a particular intervention (e.g. those freed from intestinal worms by ones donation to a deworming charity) also compound at a social rate of return. The idea here is that the direct benefits of the intervention (e.g. improvement of an individuals health) lead to societal knock-on benefits that compound over time (e.g. increased productivity and likelihood to reproduce, which may themselves have beneficial economic and non-economic spill-over effects on the rest of society).”