# Why spending smarter beats bigger budgets

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2024
- Speaker: Karthik Muralidharan
- Year: 2024
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/karthik_muralidharan_why_spending_smarter_beats_bigger_budgets)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Billions of dollars are poured into global development every year, but results are lacking, says economist Karthik Muralidharan. Diving into an example with public education, he outlines how smarter resource allocation and evidence-based interventions, like learning software that dynamically responds to students and teaches at the level that's right for them, can accelerate global development worldwide — not by spending more, but by spending smarter.

## Lectures

1. [Why spending smarter beats bigger budgets](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/karthik_muralidharan_why_spending_smarter_beats_bigger_budgets/cd0c5a3e744a), 13 min (TED's player)