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Byline: Steve Friess, Joe Cochrane, Michael Hastings and Liat Radcliffe, Rana Foroohar, Andrew Murr with Michael Isikoff, Jonathan Adams, Marc Peyser, Sarah Sennott, Jac Chebatoris
WORLD AFFAIRS
The Biggest Impact
Money can't buy happiness, but it could do a better job of solving some of the world's problems. That was the working thesis of eight top economists who met in Copenhagen the last week of May to rank a list of the world's most dire problems according to which could most effectively be solved with infusions of cash. The cost-benefit analysis was applied to 17 proposed solutions to problems ranging from water sanitation to world hunger. ...
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