Vasco Grilo🔸 comments on The overall cost-effectiveness of an intervention often matters less than the counterfactual use of its funding

[Vasco Grilo🔸]

Great post, Abraham! One way to think about this is that what matters is maximising “cost-effectiveness of advocating for a funder to support an intervention” = (“cost-effectiveness of the intervention”—“cost-effectiveness of what the funder is funding”)*”money moved as a fraction of the money spent advocating for the intervention” = (CE_intervention—CE_funder)*”fundraising multiplier”. As CE_intervention increase, CE_funder tends to increase, and “fundraising multiplier” tends to decrease. So it is unclear one should be advocating for the most cost-effective interventions.