The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that.… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share
