Here is an excerpt from the Economist 2023: “We estimate that spending just $5.5bn a year on agricultural research and development to boost yields of cassava, sorghum and other crops that have been overlooked by researchers in recent decades would improve productivity and climate-change resilience, increase yields for farmers, reduce prices for consumers and rescue more than 100m more people from hunger each year. In this case, each dollar spent could deliver $33 in social benefits.”
The Economist Excerpt:
“Primary education can also be made much more efficient. In every classroom, some students struggle, while others are bored because instructors cannot teach each student at their specific level. But tablets Primary education can also be made much more efficient. In every classroom, some students struggle, while others are bored because instructors cannot teach each student at their specific level. But tablets with educational software can, with educational software can,be shared around schools. Large trials have conclusively shown significant benefits for children using such tablets for just one hour a day. In one year, a student can now learn what normally takes three. Along with other tested policies, The Economist has calculated that the cost of improving primary education for almost half a billion school children would be nearly $10bn. It would be money well spent: better-educated pupils are more productive when they enter the workforce. That would raise the future discounted lifetime incomes of those who benefit from the policies by more than $600bn.”
The article suggests that UN goals are too wide, and all encompassing. It says that focusing on areas with high impact areas will do more with the limited funding that is coming from the big Western countries.
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