If people care maybe I can look I to this more seriously and write up something longer, but I find it quite unlikely that their claim is correct. I think many of your numbered points are likely correct, but I bet 3 is significant. CEA is tough to do well, and easy to shape.
That said, wasting really is a serious concern and might be quite cheap to treat so if UNICEF was going to be highly cost-effective it might be here.
That’s a good point, like you say I suspect helping to treat wasting would be among UNICEF’S more cost effective interventions.
I wouldn’t necessarily advise looking into it unless you can find that number in the OP published somewhere. GiveWell have indeed already done their analysis also which is likely better than you or I could manage. We don’t have strong evidence (I dont’ think) yet that it is an official UNICEF number
If people care maybe I can look I to this more seriously and write up something longer, but I find it quite unlikely that their claim is correct. I think many of your numbered points are likely correct, but I bet 3 is significant. CEA is tough to do well, and easy to shape.
That said, wasting really is a serious concern and might be quite cheap to treat so if UNICEF was going to be highly cost-effective it might be here.
That’s a good point, like you say I suspect helping to treat wasting would be among UNICEF’S more cost effective interventions.
I wouldn’t necessarily advise looking into it unless you can find that number in the OP published somewhere. GiveWell have indeed already done their analysis also which is likely better than you or I could manage. We don’t have strong evidence (I dont’ think) yet that it is an official UNICEF number