Supporting economic growth seems to be very much a mainstream, common-sense idea (in the UK at least it receives a fair amount of coverage in the press). Given this, I’m not convinced simply talking about the benefits of economic growth is particularly valuable. However, perhaps you’ll be recommending particular career paths, neglected policies, or organisations that may have a particularly outsized impact on promoting growth and could be supported?
Yeah, I agree with you that it’s a common sense idea, however unfortunately, we’ve seen that it’s practice in development circles is fairly poorly executed. The bigger idea from an EA perspective is to work on trying to help move some of these flows into the right direction, lobbying for better industrial policies and action effective enterprises which act to build the growth trajectories of countries in the global South.
The most tractable method (although very thankless) is to start a business that employs people and produces things in the Global South which helps to do all these things (the authors have done this, so might be biased however). If it’s something that is interesting to you, I’d be more than happy to chat more on the subject! One day will aim to write an article on this too.
This post seems very much aligned with (and perhaps inspired by) this highly commended article and this podcast.
Supporting economic growth seems to be very much a mainstream, common-sense idea (in the UK at least it receives a fair amount of coverage in the press). Given this, I’m not convinced simply talking about the benefits of economic growth is particularly valuable. However, perhaps you’ll be recommending particular career paths, neglected policies, or organisations that may have a particularly outsized impact on promoting growth and could be supported?
Yeah, I agree with you that it’s a common sense idea, however unfortunately, we’ve seen that it’s practice in development circles is fairly poorly executed. The bigger idea from an EA perspective is to work on trying to help move some of these flows into the right direction, lobbying for better industrial policies and action effective enterprises which act to build the growth trajectories of countries in the global South.
The most tractable method (although very thankless) is to start a business that employs people and produces things in the Global South which helps to do all these things (the authors have done this, so might be biased however). If it’s something that is interesting to you, I’d be more than happy to chat more on the subject! One day will aim to write an article on this too.