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Mortality programs beat poverty programs on impact
When GiveWell compared poverty-reducing programs like direct cash transfers against childhood-mortality-averting programs, it generally found the mortality-averting programs offered more impact per dollar, though this rests on contestable philosophical judgments about trading off across types of good.
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Elie HassenfeldEvidence Quote
“when we've tried to look at what we get with those poverty-reducing programs versus these childhood-mortality-averting programs, we've generally felt that the childhood mortality averting programs look better to us”
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:30 AM
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