The simplest and most radical solution would be to stop all official aid payments.

If you can get 90 percent of the desired effect for 10 percent of the work, use the simpler solution.

It is much simpler for a transnational manufacturing corporation to implement controls to ensure product quality.

In resolving these conflicts, she set aside the small number of proposals that envisaged changes to the statement on scope, which had been provisionally agreed by the Committee at its second session and was supported during the subsequent regional consultations, as well as changes to the structure and sub headings of the document, which had been agreed as a basis for discussion by the Committee.

It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and hilarious examples.

The simplest solution is to mandate that the government buy less health care by raising the eligibility age for Medicare, capping benefits for high income beneficiaries, and so on.