Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachsis an American economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth5 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
political earth disease
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
views issues doubt
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
feet keys ladders
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.
meaningful recovery responsibility
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.
morning drinking yesterday
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, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.
real ideas challenges
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
rich poor written
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
unique our-generation challenges
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 degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
sweatshops concern
My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.
team car climate
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 and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.
country views ideas
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
needs mets interest
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
feet keys needs
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 of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
our-generation together generations
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.