This page links to our investigations of causes for the Open Philanthropy Project.
Note: the Open Philanthropy Project was previously known as GiveWell Labs.
Table of Contents
Policy
Shallow
- Advocacy for improved or increased U.S. foreign aid
- Anthropogenic climate change
- Broadband policy
- Increasing the supply of organs for transplantation in the U.S.
- International labor mobility
- Software patent reform
- Treatment of animals in industrial agriculture
- Land use reform
- U.S. Health care reform
Medium-depth
Global catastrophic risks
Shallow
- Global catastrophic risks (in general)
- Anthropogenic climate change
- Atomically precise manufacturing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Biosecurity
- Detection of near-Earth asteroids
- Geomagnetic storms
- Governance of solar radiation management
- Large volcanic eruptions
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear weapons policy
Shallow investigations conducted by others
Medium-depth
- Geoengineering research (see also our blog post on the topic)
Scientific research
Medium-depth
International development
Shallow
- Aid to fragile and conflict-affected states
- Environment for business in low-income countries
- Improving funding allocation within HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries
- Infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa
- Seasonal migration within low-income countries
- Tobacco control in low- and middle-income countries
- Traffic safety in low- and middle-income countries
Other
Shallow