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Weathering the Storms: Bjorn Lomborg on Climate Change, Global Priorities | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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The World's Biggest Problem Is Everybody Dies

For every dollar you spend, you will deliver $48 of worth for the world. This is both advice to governments in the developing world and USAID. If we could drive up that yield curve,  for about $5.5 billion, we could shave about 130 million people in hunger. We could reduce the number of people hungry by 130 million - a benefit cost ratio of 33. Neil: "The world hasn't changed much, but we have much better evidence"

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