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Re:Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize) by DrScump on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:11AM (#10606262)
It would be easiest to do so for 10 million of the poorest. Microlending and clean water initiatives like Living Water give a lot of bang for the buck, both in providing water for small-scale agriculture and saving the immense amount of time and effort it takes just to haul water for drinking and household use, often poor quality water at that.
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Re:Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize) by bigquestion on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:18AM (#10606280)
Yes its probably simpler for the poorest 10 million. For the urban poor(no agriculture) maybe some sort of 'become a microentrepreneur' movement would be more relevant? Maybe a Mechanical Turk for real-world tasks instead of computing tasks?
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