Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal… — 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
This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share… — 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… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation.… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual… — 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
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market… — 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
