Thanks to Vasco for reaching out to ask whether GiveWell has considered:
e-Government procurement (benefit-to-cost ratio of 125)
Trade (95)
Land tenure security (21).
GiveWell has not looked into any of these three areas. We’d likely expect both the costs and the benefits to be fairly specific to the particular context and intervention. For example, rather than estimating the impact of reduced tariffs broadly, we’d ask something along the lines of: What is the intervention that can actually e.g., lead to a reduction in tariffs? On which set of goods/services would it apply? Which sets of producers would benefit from those lower tariffs? And thus, what is the impact in terms of increased income/consumption?
We think there’s a decent chance that different methodologies between Copenhagen Consensus Center and GiveWell would lead to meaningfully different bottom line estimates, based on past experience with creating our own estimates vs. looking at other published estimates, although we can’t say for sure without having done the work.
Thanks to Vasco for reaching out to ask whether GiveWell has considered:
e-Government procurement (benefit-to-cost ratio of 125)
Trade (95)
Land tenure security (21).
GiveWell has not looked into any of these three areas. We’d likely expect both the costs and the benefits to be fairly specific to the particular context and intervention. For example, rather than estimating the impact of reduced tariffs broadly, we’d ask something along the lines of: What is the intervention that can actually e.g., lead to a reduction in tariffs? On which set of goods/services would it apply? Which sets of producers would benefit from those lower tariffs? And thus, what is the impact in terms of increased income/consumption?
We think there’s a decent chance that different methodologies between Copenhagen Consensus Center and GiveWell would lead to meaningfully different bottom line estimates, based on past experience with creating our own estimates vs. looking at other published estimates, although we can’t say for sure without having done the work.
Thanks for the comment! I think it would be good if you did shallow investigations of the 3 areas to see if there are any promising interventions.