Archive for October, 2006
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Paging Dr. Sachs
In chapters one and two of The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs outlines the ladder of economic development that poor countries must climb in order to bring their people out of poverty. As elegant as his summary is, it’s nothing that you couldn’t find in an economics textbook. In chapter three, he details the obstacles [...]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Sachs, on sustainability, in St. Paul’s
Ah, St. Paul’s Cathedral! Icon of old London, shrine to the survival of the human spirit, blah blah. What better place to hear Jeffrey Sachs, celebrity economist, brain of the Make Poverty History campaign, and all-round Bringer of Solutions to Difficult Problems (oh yes, and Chairman of Columbia University’s Earth Institute), explain to us the [...]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Let’s talk about Sachs
In the introductory chapters of his book The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs lays out a brief history of economic development since the Industrial Revolution, and argues that the gap between the richest and poorest countries that now exists stems from the failure of poor countries to benefit fully from that process. In the third [...]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
The World According to Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs is known as an advocate of aid and debt cancellation - a cause he’s championed through the UN’s Millennium Development Project, the Make Poverty History campaign (and its global cousins), and in his own writing. Now, aid and debt cancellation are not, as we know, without their detractors. So when I picked up [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Sachs Appeal*
The Make Poverty History / Live8 furore of 2005 (and MPH’s counterparts around the world, collectively called the Global Call to Action Against Poverty) featured plenty of rock stars, comedians, actors, campaigners, and even a few Starving Africans, arguing and lobbying for action on extreme poverty. But when it came to actual economists, one name [...]
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