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The End of Poverty

How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

By Jeffrey Sachs

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Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the Continue

Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China and Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face. In the end, readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are - and why making the effort is both our moral duty and in our own interests.

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  • Feed the world

    The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs 396pp, Allen Lane, £20 A few years ago, Jeffrey Sachs - superstar economic adviser to 100 governments and Kofi Annan, Bono's chum and global development guru - dropped in on a group of drought-affected Malawian sub ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Charity hopeth all things

    Should rich nations give to poor nations? Put bluntly like that, the question of international aid demands the answer ‘yes’. Anyone who tries to qualify the ‘yes’ is liable to be criticised as selfish, unfeeling and inhuman. In his The End of Poverty ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • Good Book..

    I'm not sure how I feel on Dr. Sachs views on Christianity (I'd have to know/read more before I can form an opinion), but other than that it was a great book. It was eye opening in that it helped me see certain things from a bigger (global) picture. It was published in 2005, so I kept that in mind ... (continue)

    I'm not sure how I feel on Dr. Sachs views on Christianity (I'd have to know/read more before I can form an opinion), but other than that it was a great book. It was eye opening in that it helped me see certain things from a bigger (global) picture. It was published in 2005, so I kept that in mind when reading (things change), but I just bought his new book "Common Wealth" which was published this year (2008), and after I finish it I hope that I will feel 'caught up' with things, and then stay that way.

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