Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not…
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Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
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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…
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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,…
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All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of…
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The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries…
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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 of…
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Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important.…
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The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it…
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The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
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In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital…
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It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.
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America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be…
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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…
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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…
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History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
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We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
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Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the…
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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 money…
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