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Presumably you'd want to subject this proposal to the same cost-benefit style analysis as these guys do. E.g. how many lives would you save per dollar?

This boils down to a long term vs short term question. State building might save a huge number of kids 5 years from now but no kids now unlike giving food.

The problem with a ranking is that it suggests a sequence of actions, when in reality you want to do more than one thing at a time (state building and giving food).