Things You Can Do

[nyuanshin]

Q: What's unglamorous and would be predicted to increase GDP per capita in poor nations by about 1% percent per year in perpetuity, for the price of a few cents per person per year?

A: Nick Kristof has the answer plus a bonus joke about Canada, and the associated website is here. ( See also.)

(via patrissimo.)

Comments

[atomicat]

I remember hearing on the CBC about an experiment in China where they put a few pounds of iodine in fields that fed millions of children. The increase in the literacy scores after a couple of years were astounding.