In his latest book 'The End of Poverty'professor Jeffrey Sachs attempts to tackle issues of
underdevelopment and global poverty in a book that reads like a cross between an …

I must confess that having read one or two reviews of Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty I
approached the book with a rather negative attitude. I was not looking forward to …

The title of this book is a bit misleading. It does not propose a strategy to end poverty, but
instead to end extreme poverty in Africa. There is extreme poverty elsewhere in the third …

A generation ago renowned econo-mist Walt Rostow, in his iconoclastic The Stages of
Economic Growth, argued that aid-financed investment was critical if the newly emerging …

Contrary to the image contrived from the title and the pre-conceived notions in our mind
about how this task is insurmountably difficult to achieve in the near or distant future, the …

In The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs asserts that
extreme poverty, defined as living on less than one dollar a day, can be eliminated by 2025 …

Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit
organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is internationally renowned for …

" Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding."—The
Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape …

In July 2005, a series of concerts called the Live 8, was organized in G8 countries and South
Africa to coincide with the G8 meeting in Gleneagles Scotland. The goal of its organizers …

Jeffrey Sachs's new book (The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Penguin
Press: New York, 2005) advocates a “Big Push” featuring large increases in aid to finance a …