Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty is a manifesto and how-to guide on ending extreme
poverty around the world; it promotes the UN Millennium Development Goals. Sachs
achieved fame with his policy package for the “stabilization” of Bolivia (which did nothing to
relieve Bolivia's poverty), and became advisor to the Yeltsin government in Russia and to
Poland, Slovenia, and Estonia as they began their transitions to capitalism (the last three
mixed successes; Russia a thorough disaster). Sachs later became more prominent as a …

Jeffrey Sachs is a complicated guy. His first claim to fame was as the doctor who
administered “shock therapy” in Bolivia, Poland, and Russia. Now he's Bono's traveling
companion. Bono wrote the introduction to Sachs's latest book (“My professor. In time, his
autograph will be worth a lot more than mine.”), and Sachs gushes all over Bono in the text
(“Bono brilliantly brought the AIDS tragedy to the attention of several key leaders of the
religious right.”). This book, TheEnd ofPoverty (Penguin Press, 2005), is a manifesto and …