I have a Gdoc here (‘Appendices to “The case against randomista development”’) where I rank countries as a function of population, poverty (GDP per capita) to get at the importance and neglectedness of improving their economic policy proxied by their ranking on the World Banks Doing Business ranking. The ranking is below.
But this didn’t include tractability. Also from a longtermist perspective some people say that India is probably going to be the most important country, due to its population size, democracy, scalability, and so on.
GDP per capita (PPP)
Population
Poverty multiplier (1/GDP) / max(1/GDP) to scale
I have a Gdoc here (‘Appendices to “The case against randomista development”’) where I rank countries as a function of population, poverty (GDP per capita) to get at the importance and neglectedness of improving their economic policy proxied by their ranking on the World Banks Doing Business ranking. The ranking is below.
But this didn’t include tractability. Also from a longtermist perspective some people say that India is probably going to be the most important country, due to its population size, democracy, scalability, and so on.
$868
79M
147
115,637
183
0.21
24,380
$1,734
102M
74
75,285
159
0.09
6,903
$1,216
29M
105
30,224
138
0.11
3,430
$3,580
163M
36
58,025
168
0.05
2,723
$6,574
1B
19
256,777
63
0.01
2,461
$1,819
41M
70
29,076
116
0.06
1,854
$5,238
193M
24
47,021
108
0.02
970
$5,861
186M
22
40,454
131
0.02
904
$15,531
1B
8
113,162
31
0.00
226