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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When is the last time anybody heard Vice President Dick Cheney even feign a word of concern for the world's poor?
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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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Countries like Malawi need, require and deserve the increased help of the international community, not only in the form of food aid but in the form of help to grow more food.
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When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then they can buy more. And trade has two-way gain.
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The Russian government not only acted corruptly, not only built up a new oligarchy of billionaires out of nothing, basically, but also gave away its most valuable financial assets-its ownership of the huge natural resource sector in Russia.
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The broader issue of the real role of the U.S., the foreign assistance aspect of that, who's going to pay for the security of a global economy?
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As of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a kind of professional consensus arose in Washington. It was called a consensus for the world, but how many people really believed all of it is an open question. A consensus came, at least within Washington, about how countries should change from non-market economies to market economies.