It would cost just $318 billion per year — roughly 0.3 percent of global GDP — to pull hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty. | Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless. We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too big, too distant, and too intractable an issue for us to solve. If the world could afford to solve it, or something like hunger, then surely somebody else would have done it already. But, it turns out, that’s simply not true. According to a new report by a group of anti...

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