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There Is No Silver Bullet For Solving Global Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

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. Data was also recorded on the cost of each intervention to allow a cost-benefit analysis to be performed. Promising results.

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The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math

Harvard Business Review

trillion : The size of the "climate economy" by 2020 according to the bank HSBC. According to Sunday's op-ed by Cass Sunstein , the Harvard professor and co-author of the great book Nudge , Ronald Reagan embraced aggressive action to solve the problem of ozone depletion because he believed the cost-benefit analysis.