Original sentence: An ongoing column in the monthly science magazine Scientific American focusing on how the earth and its climate affect world politics.He also supports establishing credit and capitalizing microloan programs, which are often lacking in impoverished areas.Sachs also argues that wealthy nations can afford to be generous, particularly when such programs are stalled by issues of financing.Sachs argued that the bed nets weren't doing any good being stored in warehouses, when the bed nets were unaffordable to those in need.Sachs does not believe that increased aid is the only solution.Sachs estimates that malaria can be controlled for US$3 billion per year, thus suggesting that anti-Malaria projects would be an economically justified investment.Sachs reasons that increased harvests would significantly increase the income of subsistence farmers and thereby reduce poverty.Sachs suggests that with improved GMO seeds, irrigation, and fertilization, the crop yields in Africa (and other places with subsistence farming) can be increased from 1 ton/hectare to 3-5 tons/hectare.The economic impact of malaria has been estimated to cost Africa US$12 billion per year.The suggestion to gift Africa with Malaria bed nets was in response to a failed project which tried to sell the bed nets.This belief is also expressed in his 2008 book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.United States foreign aid is approximately 0.25% of the federal budget, while many European countries give a significantly larger percentage
Edited sentence: A column in the monthly science magazine Scientific American focusing on how the earth and its climate affect world politics