For poverty-oriented interventions, have you considered less measurable, more hits-based, more growth-focused ideas? I’m thinking of opportunities that might have a chance of replicating something like China’s escape from extreme poverty in other countries.
A few ideas for where you might start if you tried to look into this more:
Thanks for the suggestions. For our poverty year we mainly focused on GiveWell priority programs although considered some interventions in the hits based area. Next year we plan on writing up some views comparing hits based giving to evidence-based giving and how we think they compare in expected value.
For poverty-oriented interventions, have you considered less measurable, more hits-based, more growth-focused ideas? I’m thinking of opportunities that might have a chance of replicating something like China’s escape from extreme poverty in other countries.
A few ideas for where you might start if you tried to look into this more:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZfD4cZgAcgQc5oRNN/hit-based-giving-for-global-development
http://www.econtalk.org/lant-pritchett-on-poverty-growth-and-experiments/
https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/immigration-reform/
https://blog.givewell.org/2019/02/07/how-givewells-research-is-evolving/
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/lutter-and-winter-chater-cities-innovative-governance/
(Please let me know if you found this interesting / helpful – I might write a brief EA forum post about this at some point.)
Thanks for the suggestions. For our poverty year we mainly focused on GiveWell priority programs although considered some interventions in the hits based area. Next year we plan on writing up some views comparing hits based giving to evidence-based giving and how we think they compare in expected value.