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The End of Poverty

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Jeffrey D. Sachs has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as “probably the most important economist in the world” and by Time as “the world’s best-known economist.” He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world’s poverty and misery. Now, at l...more Jeffrey D. Sachs has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as “probably the most important economist in the world” and by Time as “the world’s best-known economist.” He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world’s poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all.

Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic diagnosis of a country’s situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world’s problems are, but how solvable they are—and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Poverty is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world.(less)

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Published February 28th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 2005)

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Sep 16, 2007 Sean rated it 5 of 5 stars

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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...more

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Jun 28, 2007 Helga Mohammed el-Salami rated it 1 of 5 stars

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...more

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Aug 28, 2008 David Johnson rated it 4 of 5 stars

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...more

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Feb 24, 2008 Jim rated it 3 of 5 stars

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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 the more interesting 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 is more a tribute to what he can do, and other economists can't than a good debate on the issues. Flying Bono aro...more

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Sep 10, 2007 Paul T rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Oh Jeff...can I call you Jeff? No? Ok. Dr. Sachs, you're ideas are way too lofty and boring, but you're really enthusiastic about them so everyone likes you. I only think you're OK. What happens when all of Bono's money goes into the pockets of corrupt dictators? Will he be able to afford more sunglasses so he can continue to have pictures of himself taken with brown kids in the bright African sun? I think he will. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs in those bright African places will continue stay stagna...more

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Jun 05, 2008 Mark rated it 3 of 5 stars

Sachs is a world reknowned economist who goes into detail about his work in Guatemala, India, Poland, and Russia, which put him on the map. Many of these countries face hyperinflation, and he guided them to stabilize their money, and receive debt cancellation from other countries – a very controversial issue at the time. In the beginning he explains what the poverty trap is – how some countries cannot even get on the first rung of the economic ladder because of their lack of natural resources, p...more

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Feb 08, 2008 H. Ryan rated it 3 of 5 stars

With convincing maps, graphs, and tables of real numbers, Jeffrey Sachs, although a bit of a know-it-all makes a compelling argument why many people today are suffering in a destitute-poverty trap, which need not be the case. Lots of interesting tidbits like the fallacy of saying corruption is the reason why African economies haven't taken off and why arguments concluding that cultural heritage has vast economic consequences don't hold weight. Here's a quote on that last: "Early in the twentieth...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Lorraine rated it 1 of 5 stars

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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 does more harm than good, most of the time. Some relief schemes are built on greed and filth. Just look at USaid!! Closer to home, look at the giant retail...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Matt D added it

Jeffry Sachs presents a remarkably hopeful case for the eradication of extreme poverty (defined as note having adequate nutrition, housing, or clothing day-to-day) in our lifetimes. It may be a story we are reluctant to hear because as long as we believe the problem is too big to handle, we can let ourselves off the hook. The resources needed are far less than most people might think, and they are well within reach of the developed world. All that is required is the willingness to choose to solv...more

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Nov 30, 2008 Larry rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: all caring people

Jeffrey Sachs has more degrees and social achievements in his modest years than most people of that social responsibility crowd achieve in a lifetime. His driving passion is not to achieve an equal distribution of wealth but rather to raise the average wealth of all mankind by helping to bring the poorest of us out of poverty. In this offering he calculates the modest cost (an amount equal to one cup of Starbucks coffee from every American) and the practical application (helping people help them...more

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Apr 24, 2013 M.J. rated it 3 of 5 stars

Originally read for a class on the International Aspects of Economic Development.

Sachs' begins his best-selling book by describing a trip he took to a village in sub-Saharan Africa. It's a good place to begin. Through it's 368 pages (not including a foreword written by Bono), Sachs weaves briskly around the world describing the existence of extreme poverty—subsistence on less than $1 a day—and provides his solutions to achieve an end of extreme poverty within the next decade.

It's an important to...more Originally read for a class on the International Aspects of Economic Development.

Sachs' begins his best-selling book by describing a trip he took to a village in sub-Saharan Africa. It's a good place to begin. Through it's 368 pages (not including a foreword written by Bono), Sachs weaves briskly around the world describing the existence of extreme poverty—subsistence on less than $1 a day—and provides his solutions to achieve an end of extreme poverty within the next decade.

It's an important topic and Sachs raising some very salient points. The book itself can be divided into three sections, each with its own merits and set-backs.

Chapters one through four describe the state of poverty and life in developing nations today. It briefly touches on the historical and geographic reasons that some nations have succeeded while others have stagnated. This is probably the book at its most focused, as it explores the problems and hints at where the solutions might rest.

Chapters eleven through eighteen amounts to the Sachs manifesto. His plea to the developed nations of the world to answer the call to end extreme poverty and increase development assistance (to the very levels they've long promised—and failed—to provide). Sometimes the ideas seem real and tactical, other times they are broad and general so to express what sectors he feels would most benefit the developing nations. What really bogs down this section, however, is the pure weight of numbers he tosses at the reader. They lose a sense of reality and urgency. This final third of the book really prevented me from finishing the book in a timely fashion.

The middle chapters, five through fourteen, feel like a digression or a completely different book as we go on an economic tour of the world. This is, in part, where Sachs builds his credentials to speak to these topics by going through some key moments in his career or his observations on important emerging markets. Here Sachs can be at his most entertaining, as the book reads like some strange economist thriller, or at his worst where the narrative seems self-serving. In these chapters, success comes from listening to Sachs advice and failure is almost always the result of not listening to Sachs.

But overall, the book gets its message across and does so effectively. It's a good book, not great, but certainly worthy of reading. Especially to anyone that claims to have a wider interest in the world beyond the privileged borders of the developed world.(less)

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Mar 05, 2012 Viktor Shchedrin rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Рассуждения Сакса вплотную подводят к необходимости новой версии колониализма. Колониализма на новом витке исторической спирали. Этот новый колониализм есть диалектическое отрицание того нео-колониализма, который есть сегодня, и в качестве отрицания отрицания – на горизонте возникает новый колониализм - отчасти повторяющий некоторые черты того, давнего, колониализма, а отчасти представляющий собою новый этап развития.
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Рассуждения Сакса вплотную подводят к необходимости новой версии колониализма. Колониализма на новом витке исторической спирали. Этот новый колониализм есть диалектическое отрицание того нео-колониализма, который есть сегодня, и в качестве отрицания отрицания – на горизонте возникает новый колониализм - отчасти повторяющий некоторые черты того, давнего, колониализма, а отчасти представляющий собою новый этап развития.
...Вообще-то с толком эксплуатировать – тоже уметь надо, и не всякий это сможет. Они относились к чёрным как к людям второго сорта, это несомненно. Англичане жили обособленно и с чёрными не смешивались. А вот французы, испанцы, португальцы – смешивались с местными. Испанцы в Южной Америке настолько мешались, что образовали новые народы. Португальцы в своих африканских колониях смешивались, женились на местных, а вот англичане держались особняком, как особые люди.
В Южной Африке рассказали. Англичанин-плантатор никогда не давал распоряжений неграм. Для этого у него были «менеджеры среднего звена» – индусы. Вот им он и давал распоряжения. И дело шло.
...Неоколониализм – это когда все обязательства по организации жизни сброшены, а ресурсы продолжают выкачивать.(less)

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Jan 16, 2012 Jamie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sachs focuses on the plight of the 1 billion people in extreme poverty, of which 20,000 perish each day. The book centers on the idea that we need to help the extreme poor to climb onto the ladder of economic development, which is currently out of their reach. Eight problems are noted that can cause a country to fail: Poverty trap (unable to accumulate capital per person), physical geography, fiscal trap (limited government resources), governance failures, cultural barriers (undermined rights of...more Sachs focuses on the plight of the 1 billion people in extreme poverty, of which 20,000 perish each day. The book centers on the idea that we need to help the extreme poor to climb onto the ladder of economic development, which is currently out of their reach. Eight problems are noted that can cause a country to fail: Poverty trap (unable to accumulate capital per person), physical geography, fiscal trap (limited government resources), governance failures, cultural barriers (undermined rights of parts of population), geopolitics (trade barriers), lack of innovation (lack of markets) and demographic trap (high fertility rates). Getting the first foot on the economic development ladder requires six types of capital: human capital (health, nutrition, and skills needed for each person to be economically productive), business capital (the machinery, facilities, motorized transport used in agriculture, industry and services), infrastructure (roads, power, water and sanitation, airports and seaports and telecommunications systems), natural capital (arable land, healthy soils, biodiversity and well functioning ecosystems), public institutional capital (commercial law, judicial systems, government services and policing) and knowledge capital (scientific and technological know-how). Prosperity ultimately spreads when technology and ideas have a foundation to flourish upon.

Like clinical medicine in the treatment of a body, we need to understand how the interrelated facets of a country and region interrelate through a differential and context based diagnosis to solve the extreme poverty problem. Support needs to focus on addressing the interrelated problems concurrently rather than in isolation. This would consist of approximately $60 US of aid per person per year, well within the 0.7% GNP commitment made by all developed countries. The problem is that the true nature of aid is hidden in a sea of numbers. Of the 2002 gross foreign aid of $76b, only $12b went to low income countries in a form deemed to be budgetary support. Viewed specifically in the context of Africa, of the $30 per sub-Saharan African aid contributed by the global community in 2002, $5 went to consultants from donor countries, $3 went to food and emergency aid, $4 went to servicing debts and $5 for debt relief, leaving only $12 to go directly to Africa (the US contribution being $0.06).

We must act upon the injustice of circumstances today to address the problems compounded over centuries. Africa for example has been subjected to three centuries of slave trade (1500-1800s) followed by a century of brutal colonial rule. The colonial era left Africa bereft of educated citizens and leaders, basic infrastructure and public health facilities. The borders of the newly independent states followed arbitrary lines of the former empires dividing ethnic groups, ecosystems, watersheds and resource deposits. After the colonial period Africa became a pawn in the cold war and was frequently manipulated by the West that contributed to a series of political crisis. No culture or society should be destined to perpetual poverty. In the 1870s the Japan Gazette predicted that Japan will never be rich because of their indolence and backward principles.

The book ended with a quote from Robert Kennedy which I liked: "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills - against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence...Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation...It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
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Jul 29, 2011 Jason Yang rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book. Having read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond, it was really nice to see an alternative (economic) perspective on what makes the world the way it is today.

Sachs' basic argument is that the world system is broken and that foreign aid for building infrastructure in developing nations is a tenable solution for solving the problem of global poverty (and other things like disease, conflict, etc.). I feel like this view gets criticized unfairly by most people, but as a 'syste...more

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Jan 10, 2011 Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership rated it 5 of 5 stars

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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 countries and many developing countries) through the provision of basic services in...more

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Jan 01, 2011 Sven rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Read this book! Jeffrey Sachs is a thoughtful, passionate, and effective communicator and advocate of straightforward, logical, and achievable steps to end extreme poverty in the next 15 years. He argues, and I agree, that the United States and the rest of the developed world should, and dare I say must commit to and deliver on financial, political, and social steps away from military domination toward economic justice for the poorest of the poor.

The book lays out an approach that will work, as...more

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Aug 27, 2010 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

When I first read about this book and the 8 U.N. Millenium Development Goals it clarifies, I thought the whole idea (ending starvation and extreme poverty ) was too good to be true, preposterous, ridiculous. I read the book anyway and decided that if even a portion of the goals are achieved it is more than worth the efforts Sachs outlines. Occassionally the writing is somewhat repetitive and labored but on the other hand the concepts are easy to understand even for people like me, with no backg...more

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Jul 21, 2010 Eva rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sachs' analysis and optimism of getting nations out of economic poverty traps is very inspiring and addicting to read. But, I wonder what the transition from the billions of dollars he is asking for in donation (of which, he spends over 100 pages arguing for near the end... getting somewhat redundant) to the economic ladder looks like. He seems to brush it off as an easy transition... which I'm sure it is not... as perhaps there are many possibilities for countries to fall back into former bad-p...more

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May 04, 2010 Maria Khalid rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book takes on the ambitious and idealistic task of explaining the process of ending worldwide poverty. Sachs claims this goal can be accomplished by the year 2025, only twenty years from the year of the book’s publication.

Despite his accreditations, I think Sachs falls short of delivering a satisfying solution to worldwide poverty. What he does do well is to explain the causes of poverty and the economic processes that would help to lift the impoverished world into prosperity. However, end...more

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Nov 03, 2009 Daniel Solera rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: business-economics, current-events, history

”Almost three thousand people died needlessly and tragically at the World Trade Center on September 11; ten thousand Africans die needlessly and tragically every single day - and have died every single day since September 11- of AIDS, TB, and malaria … [these:] ten thousand daily deaths are preventable.” (Sachs, 215)

This is perhaps a very heavy-handed way to begin a review for a book, but it is an exacting summary of Jeffrey Sach’s The End of Poverty. Sachs was a prodigal economist, known for...more ”Almost three thousand people died needlessly and tragically at the World Trade Center on September 11; ten thousand Africans die needlessly and tragically every single day - and have died every single day since September 11- of AIDS, TB, and malaria … [these:] ten thousand daily deaths are preventable.” (Sachs, 215)

This is perhaps a very heavy-handed way to begin a review for a book, but it is an exacting summary of Jeffrey Sach’s The End of Poverty. Sachs was a prodigal economist, known for his successes in managing hyperinflation with Keynesian macroeconomic policies in Bolivia and Poland, turned public health activist with a profound interest in eradicating extreme poverty per the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The message he effectively communicates is that impoverished nations need much more humanitarian aid than they are receiving because they are caught and maintained in what Sachs calls a “poverty trap” by rampant and untreated disease, lack of opportunity for world market integration, and prohibitive geography amongst other key factors.

The obstacles to such a lofty goal as ending world hunger are numerous but Sachs is confident that they can be overcome by 2025 (with extreme poverty cut in half by 2015). Among those obstacles are the IMF’s and World Bank’s lack of immediate context and how their set prescriptions for success and social policy recommendations do not address individual nations’ unique challenges, the most glaring of which his their unwillingness to deal with disease. He also condemns the United States for directing an embarrassing amount towards its military buildup and foreign wars, rather than bolstering national security by stabilizing the impoverished nations that foment terrorism.

One can’t help but join Sachs in his optimism after finishing this book, the enormity of the task at hand notwithstanding. He states it numerous times: if the richest nations were to contribute yearly to the cause 0.7% of GNP, an amount upon which said nations had already agreed in the Millennium Development Goals, then the poorest nations would be on their way to prosperity. Sachs’ framework for solving the problem is very broad and ambitious, but its feasibility is constantly emphasized. However, I would have liked him to spell out exactly what he envisions with these target funds as they would apply to any particular village. As the book stands, everything is described in abstract terms and not what tangible, physical amenities or specific services would be brought to those in need. This is a very minor and personal gripe because I tend to process situations more completely with hypothetical situations.

The End of Poverty is not a light read, but it is certainly an inspirational one. I’d highly recommend this book to anyone interested in public health or the economics of poverty.(less)

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Jul 01, 2009 Nicole Marble rated it 5 of 5 stars

Micro-loans; group lending; GRAMINE; disease control, meds -
Why should the poor of the world - those who exist on 50 cents a day (that's $130 per YEAR) be left in poverty. Isn't there something we can do?
Jobs for women and an increase in literacy dramatically reduce infant mortality - and reduce the number of children born thereby stabilizing population.
Overall, it is in everyones interest that people in poor countries are educated and work. Sachs points out that Reagan and Thatcher opined that...more

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Jun 30, 2009 Josh rated it 4 of 5 stars

One-sixth of the world lives like we do...first world people. Two-thirds live in varying states of second world countries with varying states of health care and food supply, but for the most part they are at least getting by.

Then there is the bottom one-sixth of the population, the part that lives in extreme poverty and third world countries. They live in constant fear of developing horrible diseases...diseases that can kill them in a matter of days or weeks...diseases and conditions like mumps...more

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Apr 18, 2009 Kendra rated it 4 of 5 stars

While I received a lot of negative feedback about this book before I read it, I learned a lot from it. Yes, the author is a bit arrogant and he does propose some very controversial ideas (corruption is not the problem in Africa, Americans should give MORE money) but he does so in very convincing way.

Educated at Harvard and boasting years of experience in international aid, Jeffrey Sachs probably has earned the right to be a bit arrogant. He also possesses an ability to lay out the problems of t...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Athena rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: development, exam-list-1, read-summer-2011

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 are more effectively guaranteed by cutting down glob...more

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Apr 14, 2009 Marcella rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sach's is a global economist who helped create a capitalist economy in Poland after Communism fell. He tried to do the same for Russia. It seems, at least in his words, if a government turned their economy over to him he could make it into a productive economy. His book gives the road map to how the world will acheive the Millinum Global Development goals. He has realistic ideas on how the African nations can the downward spiral of disease and low GDP.
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Nov 23, 2008 Terran rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Those interested in economics or third-world development

This is a fascinating and compelling book. I really want it to be true, though I can't really bring myself to believe it all.

The core target of this book is development economics: how to lift nations out of grinding poverty and bring them up to a non-horrendous standard of living. His core thesis (once you get past the self-congratulatory couple of introductory chapters) is that nations will lift themselves out of poverty, if only we can get them into a position where they can really trade and p...more

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May 14, 2013 Andrew rated it 3 of 5 stars

Where to start? This is an important and well-written book. Sachs is an important voice in fighting global poverty and he has his own vision. Like his buddy Bono, Sachs is an egomaniac par excellence. There are plenty of peers who disagree with his 'wonder work' in Bolivia and Poland.
This book was written before the global financial meltdown and Obama's incompetence as a global voice.
He dismisses several points. One is that many poverty-stricken countries are essentially countries of children. D...more

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Feb 21, 2009 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The first half is an excellent watered-down practical economics lesson for the non-ECB majors around (me). Sachs' writing is very deliberate and rational, which is suitable for an academic as well as for the point he's trying to make- we need to give money and give it now.

I don't like charity (especially charity run by religious motivations and/or guilt) and it's rare that I think throwing money at a problem will fix it. But Sachs has me pretty convinced. He doesn't rely on 'goodness of the hea...more

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Apr 19, 2008 Kristin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: economics-sociology

A new way to think of global economics, for sure. I need some time to process his concept of capitalism with a heart as the best vehicle for social justice. I can respect the way Sachs tries to find a middle ground between dog-eat-dog free-market systems and closed authoritarian systems. A little repetitive at the end and not super well-written.

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May 20, 2009 Sharon Howe rated it 5 of 5 stars

As part of today's world, let's think about the 2 billion people who live in abject poverty, and what the rest of us - those living in "donor countries" can do to help. Sachs explains why the poorest nations have been unable to improve the lives of their citizens. It's not laziness. It's not corruption. In fact, Sachs makes some insightful comments about national corruption and the correlation to wealth and poverty. It may even change the way you think about corruption.

This is one of the few boo...more

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The End of Poverty

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