Thank you for this info. Am i understanding correctly that advocacy for taxes on sugary drinks is estimated to be 55x more effective than donation to givewell's recommended charities?

I think it is also useful to consider some civic consequences of depletion of non-tradable professional workforces. In countries where premature deindustrialization from import competition and IT and industrial automation have reduced the number of clerks, engineers, and factory workers, teachers, policemen, and nurses not only perform their professional roles but may also be the school board, the church organizers and donor pool, the newspaper's customer base, the treasurers of the local government, and maybe the base of a democratization movement. The nurse from Lagos at the medical post may be the only sympathetic, knowledgeable outsider to whom the village girls can look for advice or role modeling

To be fair, I can imagine remittances help thicken the civic fabric. Maybe by financing private school tuition for a nephew, or a family member's internet cafe business / print shop

Have you set up this school in Uganda? How has it gone?

Are there any promising political or technical initiatives that exist or that you would like to see to increase the volume of exports and employment in low-income countries? What are some important barriers in the present? Tariffs? Inadequate infrastructure in very poor countries?

congrats. i hope content will include setbacks in the fight to keep GBG / bichera fly out of Central America and Mexico, Uruguay's anti-bichera project and collaboration with Mexico, corn import tariffs' potential for reducing chicken industry scale, Fiocruz dengue vaccine efforts, chikugunya vaccine prospects, use of Brazilian and Portuguese media products such as telenovelas and soccer competitions for improving Portuguese fluency in ex - Portuguese colonies in sub-Saharan Africa to aid in nation-state consolidation and development

I think there are already tons of really smart people working full time on making the futures where we survive more valuable. I think the likeliest existential and catastrophic risks are relatively neglected

are you seeking investors?

If increased homebuilding does not raise inflation economy-wide, might it still make credit a bit more expensive by raising competition for credit?

If more direct effects on interest rates of increased homebuilding are smaller than effects on policy rates via lower rent-->lower inflation, should we surmise that US yimbyism may be a useful intervention for augmenting global development and reducing global poverty?

We are currently having problems with inadequate electricity generation in Ecuador, where drought has weakened hydropower output. What do you think second-best solutions might be for countries in this boat? Waiting for foreign donors/investors/lenders to impose higher prices as a condition of major help? Waiting for solar and batteries to get better/cheaper and replace more of diesel's role, and also to make generation cheaper for the energy firms so that their deficits are smaller and more bailout funds can be aimed at new investment?

Countries like Ecuador, Colombia, and Nigeria have recently demonstrated courage in reducing motor fuel subsidies (which, in Nigeria, may impact those firms and households who rely on diesel backup). Are electrical price subsidies politically even tougher due to electricity being so much more common than cars in low and middle-income countries?

What are the next steps for expanding this program? I read that the pharma firm Takeda and a Brazilian non-profit have each invented promising dengue vaccines, too