The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the UN Millennium Project, explains his plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. 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. Sachs calls for an increase in domestic budgets for foreign financial development assistance. In the U.S., it would mean raising foreign aid from 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. To purchase a copy of this book, please click here.
Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005)
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