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Two: Rachel Glennerster on global poverty

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Are You Trying to Improve Productivity in Developing Countries?

In the other interv you mention that starting a successful business in the developing world was potentially underrated. Do you know of any instances of people from the us, or the u k, or australia actually going and managing to successfully do this in a developing country? Just the names of the businesses would be plenty, i think, to go and study them. I mean, i know people who started businesses. It's a bit early on to say whether they've really changed things. This is partly coming from the literature showing that there's huge potential improvements in productivity in most companies in the developing World. Like some simple, basic improvements in management practices a cod massively improve things.

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