GiveDirectly Gives Poor People a Year's Income
It feels odd to call this a startup instead of a charity or non-profit. The normal goals of a startup vs a charity, which seems a better description for the things this company/group is doing<i>, don't match well to me (edit in italics: forgot to finish writing this sentence)</i>. Nothing particularly wrong with calling it a startup I guess, just strikes me as odd.<p>This seems to be part of a larger turn towards more data and study driven aid than was the standard. Hopefully the larger nation state players can get around to using aid programs to reap longer term improvements vs the current short term and occasionally overall harmful effects some programs have been reported to create.