Universities in LMICs often have limited access to funding. Additional funding could enable many good outcomes including:
Greater opportunities for exceptional people born in LMICs
Better and more influential academic contributions from people in LMICs, which would increase the diversity of backgrounds of people contributing to global academia, and perhaps uncover key errors and blindspots in Western academic thought.
Boost economic growth in LMICs
Boost epistemic standards in LMICs
Help improve LMIC capacity to undersand and plan for catastrophes, e.g. from pandemics and climate change.
Funding could be focussed on issues of concern to EAs, such as pandemics, or could be unrestricted to boost overall university capacity. As well as funding universities, funds could be provided for networks, independent labs, access to journals, travel and conferences, spinout companies etc.
Build LMIC university capacity
Economic growth, Empowering exceptional people
Universities in LMICs often have limited access to funding. Additional funding could enable many good outcomes including:
Greater opportunities for exceptional people born in LMICs
Better and more influential academic contributions from people in LMICs, which would increase the diversity of backgrounds of people contributing to global academia, and perhaps uncover key errors and blindspots in Western academic thought.
Boost economic growth in LMICs
Boost epistemic standards in LMICs
Help improve LMIC capacity to undersand and plan for catastrophes, e.g. from pandemics and climate change.
Funding could be focussed on issues of concern to EAs, such as pandemics, or could be unrestricted to boost overall university capacity. As well as funding universities, funds could be provided for networks, independent labs, access to journals, travel and conferences, spinout companies etc.