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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 339.46091724
Fabric Type: 9780143036586
Legal Disclaimer: 0143036580
Maximum Color Depth: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Metal Type: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 416
Total External Bays Free: February 28, 2006
Total Firewire Ports: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Amazon.com Review:
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the "ladder of economic development" so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, which he explains in great detail in The End of Poverty. Though his plan certainly requires the help of rich nations, the financial assistance Sachs calls for is surprisingly modest--more than is now provided, but within the bounds of what has been promised in the past. For the U.S., for instance, it would mean raising foreign aid from just 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. Sachs does not view such help as a handout but rather an investment in global economic growth that will add to the security of all nations. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves.
Despite some crushing statistics, The End of Poverty is a hopeful book. Based on a tremendous amount of data and his own experiences working as an economic advisor to the UN and several individual nations, Sachs makes a strong moral, economic, and political case for why countries and individuals should battle poverty with the same commitment and focus normally reserved for waging war. This important book not only makes the end of poverty seem realistic, but in the best interest of everyone on the planet, rich and poor alike. --Shawn Carkonen
Product Description:
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the worlds poorest citizens
Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of the worlds 100 most influential people. Sachss aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he takes readers in his footsteps, explaining his work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, while offering an integrated set of solutions for the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the poorest countries. Marrying passionate storytelling with rigorous analysis and a vision as pragmatic as it is fiercely moral, The End of Poverty is a truly indispensable work.
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This book arrived quickly, securely wrapped, and in like-new condition. I couldn't be happier.
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This book has an idea that is generally repeated over and over, send more aid to poverty stricken nations. That approach is interesting an cannot be disproved but for that matter it cannot be proven to work. Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion or Guns, Wars, and Votes are a more balanced approach to ending world poverty.
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The book was in fine condition, but it took over a month for them to ship it to me. I needed it for a class and was expecting it in about two weeks like the site said. The other two books I ordered at the same time came two weeks after the order, but this book took twice as long.
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Would have enjoyed this book LOTS more if Jeffrey Sachs could have throttled back just a bit on how he has personally saved the World (and how many calamities could have been prevented if the World had simply listened to him).
Ironically, his descriptions of why he is the World's Most Important Economist are actually examples of why his massive, generalized approach to poverty reduction are (unfortunately) doomed to failure.
Look, I appreciate the guy's motivations, but ... Read More
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I wanted to like this one--really, I did. Sachs starts off well with so much promise, but the book too quickly devolves into a turgid, complicated, and unconvincing advocacy for the UN's somewhat arbitrary Millennium Development Goals and massively increased foreign aid as the only One True Solution for extreme poverty. The book's useful content could be made more useful by distilling it down by three fourths.
Overall, while I agreed with him on many points, Sachs didn't convince me ... Read More
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