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There Is No Silver Bullet For Solving Global Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

When Elon Musk pledged to donate several billion towards solving global poverty, it created a clear sense of a problem that would be relatively easy to solve. The government wanted to improve the performance of the program, so teamed up with the researchers and partners at the World Bank to devise some additional interventions.

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The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math

Harvard Business Review

The tour was inspired by McKibben's incredible essay in Rolling Stone magazine, " Global Warming's Terrifying New Math.". This number provided another view on some similar math from McKinsey , which concluded that the ratio of global GDP per ton of CO2 would need to rise tenfold by 2050. But constraints drive innovation.