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	Commanding Heights : Jeffrey Sachs \| on PBS
		JEFFREY SACHS: We're living in a time of incredible flux on many dimensions -- in the nature of our daily lives and the role of technology, in the rate of economic change, and in the rate of change of the social and political and economic institutions by which our societies are organized.
		JEFFREY SACHS: When I got to Bolivia, I was invited by the presumptive president, the man that had won the plurality in the vote, the man [who] is, in the year 2000, president of Bolivia, President Banzer.
		JEFFREY SACHS: The idea of the reform in Bolivia was first, to stop the hyperinflation; second, to make the economy open for international trade; and third, to change the role of government so that government would help to regulate and create rules of the game, but not to control, to manage, to micromanage the economy.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_jeffreysachs.html (11410 words)

	UN Millennium Project \| Who we are
		Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
		Sachs is internationally renowned for advising governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms and for his work with international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease control, and debt reduction of poor countries.
		Sachs was recently elected into the Institute of Medicine and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
	www.unmillenniumproject.org /who/sachs.htm (266 words)

	Columbia News ::: Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs, One of the World's Leading Economists, Will Head Columbia Earth Institute
		Sachs, who serves as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa as well as to the United Nations, is widely considered one of the most important economists in the world.
		During 1986-1990, Sachs was an advisor to the president of Bolivia, and in that capacity helped to design and implement a stabilization program that reduced Bolivia's inflation rate from 40,000 percent per year to the current rate of 10 percent per year.
		In 1990, Sachs met with Pope John Paul II as a member of a group of economists invited to confer with the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace in advance of the Papal Encyclical Centesimus Annus.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/04/jeffreySachs.html (1467 words)

	Jeffrey Sachs's lifepath
		Sachs uses this book to promote the UN's Millennium Development Goals (on which he is an advisor to Secretary General Kofi Annan), which were agreed to by 147 heads of state gathered in New York in September 2000.
		Sachs was an advisor to the Yeltsin government in Russia from 1991 to 1994, and also advised Poland, Slovenia, and Estonia as they were beginning their transitions to capitalism.
		Sachs, who was not involved in the scandal, decamped to Columbia (it's said there was no going-away party from his Harvard colleagues).
	www.leftbusinessobserver.com /Sachs.html (2306 words)

	Jeffrey Sachs to Poor Nations: 'Forget Debt, Spend on AIDS'
		Columbia University's Jeffrey Sachs says that the Highly-Indebted Poor Countries, known as HIPC nations, should re-channel their debt payments to more pressing domestic needs like health, elementary education and the fight against HIV/AIDS.
		Sachs' idea has elated anti-debt campaigners, who have long called for a repudiation of the debt of poor nations, but was greeted with caution by some creditors.
		In his paper, to be published in the prestigious Brookings Papers on Economic Activity in mid-August, Sachs argues that there is no financial reason that impoverished countries should continue paying their debts, which amount to only a few billion dollars a year.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0802-02.htm (1001 words)

	Presentation
		Sachs called the MDG’s goal of halving poverty by 2015 achievable, and said if the momentum is continued that extreme poverty can be eliminated from the planet by 2025.
		Sachs said the problem seems to be that implementation is not done because the poor countries don’t have the resources to do the implementation.
		Sachs agreed the MDG’s could not be implemented in one year because of absorption reasons but it should not be consider a long-term constraint.
	info.worldbank.org /etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1061&EID=548 (1302 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| George Caffentzis, "Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sachs claims not be a doctrinaire neoliberal economist, but a clinical economist who uses the tools of neoliberal theory to diagnose the causes of economic diseases and to provide appropriate therapies (Sachs 2005: 71—89).
		Putting aside Sachs’ moral imperatives and his appeals to the heritage of the Enlightenment, the pragmatic consequence of Sachs’ medicine is that the pool of potential competitors in the world’s wage labor market should be dramatically enlarged once again.
		Sachs is anxious, as a clinician to capitalism (his other, more troublesome patient!), that the world labor market (not the world population) grows in the future, providing the necessary control of the rest of the working class.
	info.interactivist.net /article.pl?sid=05/07/19/0242219 (2794 words)

	The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs - Penguin Group (USA)
		"Jeffrey Sachs is that rare phenomenon: an academic economist famous for his theories about why some countries are poor and others rich, and also famous for his successful practical work in helping poor countries become richer.
		Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all.
		Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1594200459,00.html (957 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time - Jeffrey Sachs - Hardcover
		Sachs began his crisis consulting in Bolivia in the mid-1980s and went on to work with Poland in 1989, Russia in 1992 and 1993, and countless other countries since.
		Sachs is no bleeding-heart liberal-he sees Third World sweatshops as opportunities to improve on even more egregious conditions and prescribes for poor nations a program of free-enterprise capitalism once the basic groundwork of his proposal has been laid.
		Professor Sachs indicates that the “world is not a zero-sum game in which one country’s gain is another’s loss, but it rather a positive-sum opportunity in which improving technologies and skills can rise living standards around the world”.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=fz1QxvjAjP&isbn=1594200459&itm=1 (2010 words)

	The End of Poverty: An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs
		Headed by economist Jeffrey Sachs, the panel published their final report in January of 2005.
		For instance, in one test case conducted in Kenya, UN funding went straight to the village of Sauri, where the schools were able to provide much-needed food for their students, and hence jumped in ranking from 68th to 7th in the district.
		Sachs, who gained renown for advising Latin American and Asian governments on economic reform, has gained popularity as "can-do" economist amidst a cacophony of naysayers on development.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2005/05/jeffrey_sachs.html (3439 words)

	Jeffrey Sachs and world poverty \| CrossLeft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sachs is doubtless even more persuasive for those who see the American empire as the model for all other empires to follow.
		The implication is that Sachs’ proposals in the latter half of the book for massive foreign aid to bring the poorest, mostly African, countries out of poverty can largely be analyzed on their own merits, and not on the basis of the success of Sachs’ economic policies in big countries.
		Sachs wants what he calls a “differential diagnosis”, but in fact he does not properly diagnose the problems which are faced by the truly poor in Africa, even though he correctly identifies the most important problems.
	www.crossleft.org /?q=node/603 (1077 words)

	Leigh Bureau - W. Colston Leigh, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jeffrey is Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals.
		Sachs also researches the links of health and development, economic geography, globalization, transition to market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, international financial markets, international macroeconomic policy coordination, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries.
		Sachs is the recipient of many awards and honors, including membership in the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Fellows of the World Econometric Society.
	leighbureau.com /speaker.asp?id=152 (575 words)

	AlterNet: The Evolution of Jeffrey Sachs
		Sachs' book is a natural extension of his present tenure as director of both the UN Millennium Project and Columbia University's Earth Institute.
		Sachs' vision, however, is most powerful and compelling in its call for holistic approach toward economic development -- an approach, he dubs, "clinical economics," a phrase he derives from pediatrics.
		Another important component of Sachs' model is technological know-how, where advances in farmland reclamation and superior seed stock, renewable energies, cheap and effective medicines, and improved transportation and communication services become tools in changing the economic dynamic.
	www.alternet.org /story/22032 (2460 words)

	Amazon.com: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time: Books: Jeffrey Sachs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sachs came to fame advising "shock therapy" for moribund economies in the 1980s (with arguably positive results); more recently, as director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, he has made news with a plan to end global "extreme poverty"--which, he says, kills 20,000 people a day--within 20 years.
		Jeffery Sachs' "The End of Poverty" is three books in one: First, it is an exploration of the world, focusing on economics but surveying wide array of topics regarding international relations and politics, and offers a portrait of the planet today.
		Sachs is an enthusiastic advocate of the Millenium Development Goals - a UN program to half poverty by 2015 - and of UN secretary general Kofi Annan (whom he calls "the world's finest stayrsman" p.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200459?v=glance (2545 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
		Sachs, one of the youngest tenured professors in the history of the Harvard economics department, had established himself as an authority on inflation and international finance, and was someone who, in his own words, “thought that I knew just about everything that needed to be known” about his subject.
		Sachs and Lipton worked through the night, and by dawn had completed a fifteen-page brief with a specific chronology of policy reforms.
		Although a little humility would help his cause, Sachs, youthful still at fifty, must be commended for trying to hold rich nations to their promises, and for reminding his countrymen that military action is not the only way to export American values.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/050411crbo_books (3925 words)

	Sources of Global Divergence: The Economic History Association Annual Meeting's Plenary Session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The most important lesson he learned, said Sachs, is that a large chunk of technology is ecologically specific, and that as a result technological diffusion is amazingly slow when it must take place across an ecological divide.
		This lesson, said Sachs, is one key to understanding the causes of the savage inequalities that exist in the world today between the temperate--not the "North" because the far south of Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and South Africa are temperate and rich as well--and the tropical.
		And Sachs could have finished by saying that we now live in One World: that in the long run the fact that people can communicate so cheaply and quickly will mean that voters in Tennessee will know about and care about people dying of malaria in the Ganges Valley.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /TotW/development_ecology.html (2637 words)

	A Modest Proposal (washingtonpost.com)
		Jeffrey D. Sachs's guided tour to the poorest regions of the Earth is enthralling and maddening at the same time -- enthralling, because his eloquence and compassion make you care about some very desperate people; maddening, because he offers solutions that range all the way from practical to absurd.
		Sachs should redirect some of his outrage at the question of why the previous $2.3 trillion didn't reach the poor so that the next $2.3 trillion does.
		Sachs calls for huge increases in aid to his favorite countries, like Malawi and Ethiopia, overlooking inconvenient factors such as the worsening of Malawi's famine because corrupt officials sold off its strategic grain reserves and because autocratic Ethiopian rulers have favored their own minority Tigrean ethnic group.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A25562-2005Mar10.html (1730 words)

	“Me Tarzan. Me save Africa.” Jeffrey Sachs, the G8 and poverty Anthony Barnett - openDemocracy
		Sachs describes how $2 a day means none of the savings or resources, education or the basic family health needed to escape destitution.
		It is not that Sachs is only interested in the sound of his own voice: he listens, researches, he is a pleasure to interview, he engages as many gurus and self-publicists do not.
		Jeffrey Sachs makes a compelling case for engagement and for the need for government and responsibility.
	www.opendemocracy.net /globalization-G8/poverty_2645.jsp (3121 words)

	RESULTS: Jeffrey Sachs Telephone Press Briefing for Journalists
		Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the UN Millennium Project and Dr.
		We’re sponsoring this call and RESULTS is an advocacy organization that works to influence U.S. policies and priorities, as well as that of other donor nations in order to ensure that all people, especially very poor people, have access to health care, education, and their basic needs being met.
		Professor Sachs, the perception is that — and I know you’ve written about this — that so much money goes down the drain because of corrupt governments in Africa and elsewhere.
	www.results.org /website/article.asp?id=1473 (5704 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Should Jeffrey Sachs get $150 billion per year? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sachs is the director of Columbia University's Earth Earth Institute and for the past two decades has been a macroeconomist to the stars.
		Sachs was wrong in bolivia; don't know about poland really, but of course corruption, nepotism and just outright world-class conmanship have a role in ex-colonial countries' poverty loop, arguably equal to, less than, or greater than the role played in this by their colonial status, to speak in circles.
		Jeffrey Sachs' argument falls apart right where the Time article chose to center it, in that little village in Malawi, if you were there to see it before AIDS arrived.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/001933.html (16384 words)

	On Point : Jeffrey Sachs - Jeffrey Sachs
		Jeffrey Sachs, U.N. special adviser to Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Project, has just returned from Africa and says the continent is trapped in poverty.
		Sachs says it will take a flood of foreign aid, a "big push," to bring the continent into the first world.
		Jeffrey Sachs, U.N. special adviser to Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Project, an initiative to meet development goals defined by world leaders in 2000, including eliminating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2005/01/20050113_a_main.asp (245 words)

	Developments - The International Development Magazine - Africa can escape poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If anyone has a handle on this, it is the acclaimed economist, academic and anti-poverty campaigner Jeffrey Sachs, now Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals.
		Sachs, well known for advising governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms and for working with international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease control, and debt reduction of poor countries, was recently named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time Magazine.
		Developments tracked Dr Sachs down on a visit to London where he was presenting a progress report on the UN Millennium Project, a recommended plan of implementation that will allow all developing countries to meet the MDGs by 2015.
	www.developments.org.uk /data/issue28/escape-poverty.htm (2105 words)

	The Eisenthal Report: Jeffrey Sachs' Challenge
		In the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs magazine, Jeffrey Sachs continues his campaign to increase the amount of Official Development Aid (ODA) given by this country.
		Sachs cites OECD figures that ODA contributions by the United States totaled $16.3 billion in 2003 - about 0.15 percent of Gross National Income.
		Sachs believes that the recent outpouring of concern for and resources to victims of the South Asia tsunami "may obscure rather than clarify a deeper truth.
	davideisenthal.typepad.com /the_eisenthal_report/2005/03/jeffrey_sachs_c.html (344 words)

	HPH NOW, January 23, 2004, Sachs Discusses Global Poverty
		The Cutter Lecture was sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and marked the inaugural talk of the "Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series." The next talk in the series is scheduled for January 29.
		Sachs went on to say that, considering what is known about infectious diseases and what resources are available, "We ought to save eight million lives every year, and we ought to get on with it now.
		Sachs called for an additional, more expeditious plan that would ramp-up health care in remote areas in a 10-year timeframe.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /now/jan23 (708 words)

	Can We End Global Poverty? - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Anyway, Jeffrey, as I said, has always been producing interesting work, and his latest work is—well, most of you are probably familiar with, since about 2001, I think, maybe 2002, has been with the U.N. on the big global policy projects, the U.N. Millennium [Development] Goals, which Jeffrey, I think, oversaw.
		SACHS: The main devastation about gender inequity in Africa is that women carry the burden of there not being fuel wood, water, clinics, schools available in the communities.
		SACHS: I think there are two parts to the answer, but the first part is that about 75 percent of the jobs in Africa now are farm jobs.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=8224 (7753 words)

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