Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachsis an American economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth5 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
buy countries generally open sell trade
When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then they can buy more. And trade has two-way gain.
apply donors food four government helped helping hungry improved last low malaria millennium people planting practical private produced project seeds seem support took village western year
we took on as a project helping a village in western Kenya. It was 5,000 hungry people beset with malaria and AIDS. And we said, 'let's apply the recommendations of the Millennium Project in this village with the support of a private donor, because government donors don't seem to do such practical things.' And we helped them get improved seeds and some fertilizer for the planting season. That's all. Very low cost. They produced four times more food this year than last year.
our-generation together generations
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
feet keys needs
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
needs mets interest
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
team car climate
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.
unique our-generation challenges
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
rich poor written
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
sweatshops concern
My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.
morning drinking yesterday
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.
feet keys ladders
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.
views issues doubt
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
essence poverty economics
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
meaningful recovery responsibility
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.