The End of Poverty

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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world s poorest citizens, from one of the world s most renowned economists Hailed by Timeas one of the world s hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world s poorest countries Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations. 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Sachs – kino-fada.fr Towards the End of Poverty A ManifestoThe difference between a solid policy prescription book and an evocative manifesto is hard to make out if it is an economist writing it I should have known which side this would fall on once I saw that the introduction was by Bono, but I let the forceful and articulate Bono force me into buying this one In the store, Bono s righteous anger was infectious and the book could not be put down It sounded like a moral obligation Fifteen thousand people dying Towards the End of Poverty A Manif...You, being a smart person who is up on contemporary debates in economics and development and or are a reader of Vanity Fair, probably already know all about Sachs and this book.Sachs made his name giving shock therapy to various third world economies He recommended they jack up interest rates, and pushed them towards neo liberal free market structures His career hit a bit of a bad patch when he was associated with the economic meltdown of the former Soviet Socialist Republic This book is hi You, being a smart person who is up on contemporary debates in economics and development and or are a reader of Vanity Fair, probably already know all about Sachs and this book.Sachs made his name giving shock therapy to various third world economies He recommended they jack up interest rates, and pushed them towards neo liberal free market structures His career hit a bit of a bad patch when he was associated with the economic meltdown of the former Soviet Socialist Republic This book is his recommendations for development in Africa Sach s ideas at base a pr...What do Bono, and countless other celebrities have in common with the author A They ve always wanted to be celebrities What is different A The celebs actually think that the world can be rid of poverty and misery and vice Are you honestly going to tell me that one of the world s most influential economists ACTUALLY believes that poverty can be banished or even meaningfully reduced Not a chance Not with Africa s population growth rate Sachs is selling panic again to promote himself and i What do Bono, and countless other celebrities have in common with the author A They ve always wanted to be celebrities What is different A The celebs actually think that the world can be rid of poverty and misery and vice Are you honestly going to tell me that one of the world s most influential economists ACTUALLY believes that poverty can be banished or even meaningfully reduced Not a chance Not with Africa s population growth rate Sachs is selling panic again to promote himself and it s really beginning to grate my nerves The entire book is a formula to get people involved i.e spending money a happy percentage ...I expected to give this book one star, but I could get behind enough of Sachs ideas to give it two Sachs opposes IMF WB austerity measures to promote development, and defends health care, education, and other services as public goods He advocates taxing the rich and getting the world s wealthiest people to invest their money in the world s poorest people He opposes Bush s excessive military spending because he thinks US and global security areeffectively guaranteed by cutting down glob I expected to give this book one star, but I could get behind enough of Sachs ideas to give it two Sachs opposes IMF WB austerity measures to promote development, and defends health care, education, and other services as public goods He advocates taxing the rich and getting the world s wealthiest people to invest their money in the world s poorest people He opposes Bush s excessive military spending because he thinks US and global security areeffectively guaranteed by cutting down global poverty He emphasizes the need to understand and act on the vast range of factors that might contribute to poverty in specific countries and regions But predictably, Sachs, guided by Enlightenment and Adam Smith type rationalism and market logic, is misguided on the basic point of what constitute wealth, poverty,...A well written book In my opinion it can not be read without also reading William Easterly s book The Quest For Growth The two scholors are at war with each other Their debate is all theinteresting when you read the back and forth op ed pieces they have written in the Washington Post I tend to agree with Easterly Sachs means well, but he is very full of himself His book isa tribute to what he can do, and other economists can t than a good debate on the issues Flying Bono aro A well written book In my opinion it can not be read without also reading William Easterly s book The Quest For Growth The two scholors are at war with each other Their debate is all theinteresting when you read the back and forth op ed pieces they have written in the Washington Post I tend to agree with Easterly Sachs means well, but he is very full of himself His book isa tribute to what he can do, and other economists can t than a good debate on the issues Flying Bono around makes for nice PR but it doesn t address the serious economic issues problems of international growth Easterly takes a in my opinion less rigorous andanecdotal approach, call it the softer side, to growth He offers answers which everyone wants to hear, but which don t always bear fruit when fully analyzed Unfortunately, it is this fluffy si...2025 ..One of Cambridge Sustainability s Top 50 Books for Sustainability, as voted for by our alumni network of over 3,000 senior leaders from around the world To find out , click here The End of Poverty argues that extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as having an income of less than 1 a day, is the poverty that kills However, it is almost entirely preventable and solvable as has been shown in developed countri...Another book written by a rich caucasian on how to solve Third World problems Sachs floats a lot of economic theories and Bono throws in his bit as well Understandably so, they ve never walked a mile in a poor person s shoes Some things are just as nature intended We cannot all be wealthy CEOs, who ll do the ground work Intervention doesharm than good, most of the time...Generation X seems to have missed out on causes greater than ourselves The Greatest Generation had World War II The baby boomers had efforts to overcome racial discrimination and end the war in Vietnam Gen X ers have enjoyed economic prosperity and although there were events going on in the world where we should have stood up and rallied the nation around the need to do the right thing ending genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur come to mind , we opted to continue the materialistic pursuit Generation X seems to have missed out on causes greater than ourselves The Greatest Generation had World War II The baby boomers had efforts to overcome racial discrimination and end the war in Vietnam Gen X ers have enjoyed economic prosperity and although there were events going on in the world where we should have stood up and rallied the nation around the need to do the right thing ending genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur come to mind , we opt...Read for class.Sachs ideas are becoming so commonplace in discussions of modern development that it would be foolhardy not to read him His advocacy of shock therapy in economics controversial at best, and I won t go into detail about it here I am very impressed with some of his ideas about how geography impacts development similar to some of the ideas mentioned in Guns Germs and Steel and how each government should increase aid with simple technological solutions, but again, some are drec Read for class.Sachs i...

The End of Poverty
  • 13 July 2018
  • Paperback
  • 448 pages
  • 0143036580
  • Jeffrey D. Sachs
  • The End of Poverty