Best Things First

Saving 4.2 million lives in 2024 is equivalent to stopping one 747 jumbo jet full of passengers from crashing once an hour of every day for the entire year.

fight disease, provide access to clean water, and get every boy and every girl in school.

Fundamentally, Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (or BEmONC) is a package of staff, knowledge, and resources offered at healthcare facilities that make it possible to treat some of the most typical complications around birth.

Africa and South Asia — where mothers are 80 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than those living in rich countries. Newborn babies are at ten times greater risk of dying in low-income countries than in rich countries.

The 12 best policies our experts have identified cover a wide range of areas: Tuberculosis, education, maternal and newborn health, agricultural research and development, malaria, e-procurement, nutrition, land tenure security, chronic diseases, trade, child immunization, and skilled migration.

Second, the paper calls for investment by national agricultural research systems.

There are two ways to achieve this,

The third investment would be smaller and funneled toward innovation that can make those first two uses more effective. This could include, for instance, ensuring quicker and cheaper DNA sequencing of plants. Fourth, spending should go to the private sector toward improving food options for consumers in developing countries.

The other lower-tech solution to teaching at the right level is simply to have schools shuffle classes for one hour each day so that all students go to the class that is at their actual level.