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Opinion: We need to focus on the best ways to help the poor. Climate isn’t one

Relatively inexpensive investments in public health, nutrition, cheap energy and education have much bigger payoffs in poverty reduction

The past 75 years have brought the greatest improvement in human welfare ever. But over the past decade, much of that progress has stalled. That this happened as the rich world was shifting its attention to climate change is not a coincidence, and it has to change.

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Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on less than a dollar a day. In 1950, more than half of humanity was that poor. Today the share is just 7.6 per cent, the lowest ever recorded. Average schooling has almost tripled, from 3.2........

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