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
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Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development
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The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.
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This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.
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The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
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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 degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
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I'm focusing on a world divided between rich and poor, and a world that doesn't seem to be able to manage the natural base of our lives: air, oceans, or biodiversity. It's a mistake to think that globalization is automatically beneficent and should run its due course-but also to think that it ought to be shut down.
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In 2001, the prices of medications have continued to fall rapidly, ... Even though antiretroviral drug prices have declined to around $500 per year, this is still far above what poor countries can afford without donor assistance.
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In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that's the Soviet Union ended. So there was an opportunity to build a very healthy and new world, on the basis of the change that the Russian people themselves wanted. But for Russia to make that change was going to be one of the most remarkably difficult and complex passages imaginable.
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It's time for other candidates to come forward that have experience in development.
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I want the donors to think ahead, not just handle the immediate crisis,
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The war on terror cannot ever be won if the war on poverty isn't won,
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The volatility of international capital is obviously destabilizing markets today.
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The U.S. has a sound economy. It also has a cyclical economy. It also has stock market values right now that are hard to explain on historical norms. While it's always possible that everything can be based on the new economy, it's also quite possible that we're doing a little bit of exaggeration in just how wonderful things are.
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When is the last time anybody heard Vice President Dick Cheney even feign a word of concern for the world's poor?