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A Cost-Effective Way to Save the World?

Time - Over the past two years, some of the world’s top economists have been crunching the numbers on the most efficient way to spend that $75 billion, roughly the sum total of global foreign aid budgets. Led by Bjorn Lomborg — an idiosyncratic author best known for his skeptical views on global warming — the organization last month gathered eight major economists, including five Nobel Prize winners, to come up with an answer. The results are surprising.  

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817036,00.html

 

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Why the new rich are different: they give away billions to charity

Guardian UK - The rise of the super-rich in England has spawned a class of super-givers on a scale never before seen. It is estimated that the top 30 philanthropists among Britain’s richest 1,000 people either gave away or pledged to give away £2.38bn over the year to May 2008 – almost double the total of the previous year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/22/voluntarysector.charitablegiving

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