The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live,… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
