| Rank | Subject : Approach | Wikipedia Comments, what are thoughts? |
| Very Good Opportunities: | |
| 1. | Diseases: Control HIV/AIDS |
AIDS. We all know too much about it. And now EBOLA. What is needed is a culture of medical infrastructure. Aided by water and sanitiation treated here a separate topic. |
| 2. | Malnutrition: Providing Micronutrients |
Vitamin A deficiency is estimated to affect approximately one third of children under the age of five around the world. It is estimated to claim the lives of 670,000 children under five annually. Approximately 250,000–500,000 children in developing countries become blind each year owing to vitamin A deficiency, with the highest prevalence in Southeast Asia and Africa.
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| 3. | Subsidies and Trade: Trade Liberalization | "It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.... If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage." --Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776.
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| 4. | Diseases: Control of Malaria | Malaria : the World Health Organization estimates that in 2012, there were 207 million cases. That year, the disease is estimated to have killed between 473,000 and 789,000 people, many of whom were children in Africa. Malaria is commonly associated with poverty and has a major negative effect on economic development. Ebola killed 9,000 in 2014.
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| Good Opportunities: |
| 5. | Malnutrition: Develop new agricultural technologies | Green revolution increased population
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| 6. | Sanitation and Water: Small scale water technology for livelihoods | Rivers, not wells
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| 7. | Sanitation and Water: Community-managed water supply and sanitation | Good
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| 8. | Sanitation and Water: Research on water productivity in food production | Assume this means dry tolerent.
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| 9. | Government: Lowering the cost of starting a new business | Gov needs bureaucracy to "protect" us.
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| Fair Opportunities: |
| 10. | Migration: Lowering barriers to migration for skilled workers. | One world idea, equalize poverty
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| 11. | Malnutrition: Improving infant and child nutrition | Better is population reduction
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| 12. | Malnutrition: Reducing prevalence of low birth rate. | Better is population reduction
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| 13. | Diseases: Scaled up basic health services. | Local issue. Hillary care?
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| Bad Opportunities: |
| 14. | Migration: Guest worker programs for the unskilled | bad, make industry at home
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| 15. | Climate: Optimal Carbon Tax | bad, pay to pollute is dumb
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| 16. | Climate: The Kyoto Protocol | bad, earth cycles
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| 17. | Climate: Value-At-Risk Carbon Tax | bad, same as 15.
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