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By: Indermit Gill

Indermit Gill is former chief economist of the World Bank

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  • Time to refocus development aid on human welfare – not climate change

    Opinion

    Global development progress has stalled as rich nations shift aid budgets toward climate mitigation, but focusing resources on high-return investments in health, education, and economic growth offers the most effective path to uplift the world’s poorest, say Indermit Gill and Bjorn Lomborg The last 75 years have brought the greatest improvement of human welfare in [...]

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