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Topic archive: Global priorities research
Governments, foundations and individuals spend large amounts of money on efforts to improve the world. However, there is currently little research to guide them on what priorities they should focus on at the highest level.
Global priorities research applies techniques from economics, maths, and social science to help organisations choose which global problems they should spend their limited resources on, in order to improve the world as much as possible.
Selected highlights
#16 – Michelle Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals
Podcast by Robert Wiblin, Michelle Hutchinson and Keiran Harris · Published December 22nd, 2017
#37 – GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it.
Podcast by Robert Wiblin and Keiran Harris · Published July 16th, 2018
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