Jeffrey D. Sachs's Blog, page 8

Lessons from the Millennium Villages Project: a personal perspective

The Millennium Village Project (MVP) was initiated in 2005 as a means to implement the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project at a local scale in rural Africa. The main conclusion of the UN Millennium Project was that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be achieved if the high-income donor nations increased their official development assistance [...]

Trump should focus on tariffs, not deficits: Columbia professor

Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs discusses President Trump’s comments over the U.S.’s trade deficits. Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com

Mick Mulvaney delivers the chilling truth

(CNN) Bless your soul, Mick Mulvaney, for spelling out so clearly and succinctly the evil that drives Washington. As the former congressman and now interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau explained to bankers on Tuesday, “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress. If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk [...]

MSNBC Morning Joe – April 25

We can fix this: Don’t be dispirited by Big Oil’s power in the age of Trump — real climate change solutions are in reach

In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human-made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor’easters, and a $20 billion plan to reduce future flooding. Last year, the United States as a whole experienced the highest losses from climate disasters, an [...]

Radio NZ: Jeffrey Sachs – Leading Sustainable Development

Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. Sachs is director of the Center for Sustainable [...]

Radio Open Source: The Trump Doctrine in the Middle East

What President Trump said he wanted was to get US firepower out of Syria. “Let the other people take care of it now,” in his words. What he settled for with his own generals was a restricted strike on chemical weapons but not people in Syria. In the rough language of military gestures, it was [...]

Between The Lines: Jeffrey Sachs on US involvement in Syria

Earlier this month, US, British and French forces pounded chemical weapons sites in Syria with air strikes in response to an alleged poison gas attack that killed dozens in the rebel-held town of Douma last week. The strikes were the biggest intervention by Western powers against President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s seven-year-old civil war, [...]

UK regulators would be wise to block Fox bid

Published in Financial Times. Letters to the Editor Despite the pleading by Gerson Zweifach, group general counsel of 21st Century Fox, UK regulators would be ill-advised to agree to Fox’s bid for Sky News (“Fox’s bid for Sky deserves a swift and fair decision,” April 17). Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has had several notorious brushes [...]

The Monocle Daily

We hear from leading thinker Jeffrey Sachs about the US’s foreign-policy objectives in Syria, learn why the UK government has been called out for prejudiced immigration policies, discuss a clash of culture and politics in Austria and check in with the Salone design fair in Milan.