Deaton, Angus. "Forum Response: The Logic of Effective Altruism". The Boston Review, 6 July 2017.

Deaton, Angus. "Forum Response: The Logic of Effective Altruism". The Boston Review, 6 July 2017.

• The tools used by effective altruists do not allow for any agency on the part of the world's poor, especially considering that the projects funded by effective altruists differ from the priorities of people in the world's poorest countries. 
• The data used to measure effectiveness of charitable giving is questionable, furthermore it leads to a technocracy where the knowledge which influences action is only produced by the rich in the rich world. 
• These rubrics for aid do have direct effects on which countries benefit. The author points out that dictators, like Paul Kagame, are sometimes the biggest recipients because factors important to the global poor -- but not to the rich -- like democracy, are not taken into account.
• The focus of the effective altruists on financial and charity-based solutions to global poverty belies that the fact that poverty is primarily a political problem which needs better organization and political will rather than simply more money. This requires confronting the political causes of poverty in both poor countries and rich countries.