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  The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs

  A most edifying and inspiring book about a question we have always been asking ourselves - - why poverty in a plentiful world??

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    In response to Ivanhoe Yu

    I live here amongst these problems everyday and i really appreciate sach's insight. The problem is solving them isnt so simple, and each country needs a unique solution since cultural barriers make some solutions more feasible that others, etc. But it is a great reference book and a must read for anyone interested in this field

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    I'm guessing that if your name is Sachs but your wealth ideology is based on the premise that those who borrow money should not be expected to pay it back - you might have to stay in the economically protected environment of the faculty and authoring. The Sachs boys over at Goldman Sachs are in the debt forgiveness business. Jeffrey Sachs' plan to end poverty is to blame the lendors for the failure of borrowers to use the loan to improve the impoverished and then forgive the despots who borrowed the money for their own despotic pleasures? What fantasy world does he live in? How about the UN, rather than blaming capitalists for pursuing capitalism, stops enabling despots? But no, despots are the UN darlings of the Security Council. Poverty, per UN/Sachs has nothing to do with despotic rulers and everything to do with loaning money to despots! At the very least both the despots and the capitalists can depend on the uniform impotence and irrelevance of the UN and Jeffrey Sachs.

    John Dudte about 1 year ago

     

    
    

     

     

     

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