Jeffrey Sachs

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between…

— Jeffrey Sachs

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…

— Jeffrey Sachs

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

Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries.…

— Jeffrey Sachs

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They…

— Jeffrey Sachs

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged…

— Jeffrey Sachs

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

— Jeffrey Sachs

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal…

— Jeffrey Sachs

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

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation.…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it…

— Jeffrey Sachs

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

— Jeffrey Sachs

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

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction;…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society…

— Jeffrey Sachs