High-leverage ways to speed up economic growth

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Why might economic growth be a pressing issue?

Speeding up economic growth doesn’t seem as useful as more targeted ways to improve the future, and in general we [...]

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Outline:

(00:09) Our overall view

(00:34) Why might economic growth be a pressing issue?

(01:05) Which ways to increase economic growth seem especially promising?

(02:20) Learn more about economic growth as a cause area

(02:58) Explore other pressing world problems

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First published:
May 20th, 2022

Source:
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/high-leverage-economic-growth

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