21st century Quote by 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 its commitments…

— 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 to that.…

— 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 the barest…

— Jeffrey Sachs

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

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

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

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 are very…

— 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 expand the…

— Jeffrey Sachs

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

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