The End of Poverty, Jeffrey D. Sachs
The End of Poverty, Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 13 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/13/2008


Synopsis

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist

The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one  of the world's most renowned economists

Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries.
 
Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

About The Author

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, as well as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time Magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the world's three most influential living economists of the past decade. His other books include Common WealthThe Price of CivilizationTo Move the World, and The Age of Sustainable Development.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on November 23, 2013

Towards the End of Poverty: A Manifesto The difference between a solid policy prescription book and an evocative manifesto is hard to make out if it is an economist writing it. I should have known which side this would fall on once I saw that the introduction was by Bono, but I let the forceful and a......more

Goodreads review by Sean on September 16, 2007

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, an......more

Goodreads review by Nidhi on February 22, 2022

By bashing the rich, it's tough to get people up on the supposed ladder... rich create jobs and poor get that. However, it is up to the policy-makers and those money-mongers, corrupts sitting on the higher ranks in the hierarchy of the United Nations and other organisations supposedly working to 'ma......more

One of Cambridge Sustainability's Top 50 Books for Sustainability, as voted for by our alumni network of over 3,000 senior leaders from around the world. To find out more, click here. The End of Poverty argues that extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as having an income of less than $1 a day,......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 24, 2008

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 t......more


Quotes

"Jeffrey Sachs is that rare phenomenon: an academic economist famous for his theories about why some countries are poor and others rich, and also famous for his successful practical work in helping poor countries become richer. In this long-awaited, fascinating, clearly and movingly written book, he distills his experience to propose answers to the hard choices now facing the world." —Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist

"If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs’s compelling new book." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

“Professor Sachs has provided a compelling blueprint for eliminating extreme poverty from the world by 2025. Sachs’s analysis and proposals are suffused with all the practical experience of his twenty years in the field—working in dozens of countries across the globe to foster economic development and well-being.” —George Soros, financier and philanthropist

"Sachs proposes a many-pronged, needs-based attack . . . that is eminently practical and minimally pipe-dreamy . . . A solid, reasonable argument in which the dismal science offers a brightening prospect for the world's poor." —Kirkus

"This is an excellent, understandable book on a critical topic and should be required reading for students and participants in public policy as well as those who doubt the problem of world poverty can be solved." —Mary Whaley, Booklist