I was hanging earlier with my entrepreneur friend
Manish Bhardwaj, co-founder of MIT spinoff
Innovators-in-Health, when he mentioned
Copenhagen Consensus founder
Bjorn Lomborg's Global Priorities.

Specifically Manish spotlighted the disproportionate potential of
micronutrients, those "dietary minerals needed by the human body in very small quantities". I'd known this, of course, in the abstract, but Manish pointed out how enormous the numbers are for iron-deficiency anemia -- and the disastrous consequences of this
easily-remedied ailment. This is what kills me: we know today how to deal with this issue; it is quite literally "easily remedied" --
micronutrients have macro-impact. Like
Plumpy'nut. Well, Lomborg, et al, know this too, and strongly recommend
prioritization. My bias, naturally, is that
Developmental Entrepreneurship solutions are called for!
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