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I would love to read an approach to effective political giving. Does anyone know of such a document? If the effective altruism movement had focussed on political action and donations instead of private charity to supply bed nets we might have a much better world (including money for bed nets).

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  Does anyone know of such a document?

Sure, take a look at [1] and [2].

Of course, with bed nets and schistosomiasis treatments, you can perform 1% of the intervention and demonstrate 1% of lives saved (although it might take years to see the full benefits from things like better school attendance) which obviously isn't the case for political interventions.

[1] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/research/other-causes/politi... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130501081159/http://givingwhat...

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