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- Full name: Jeffrey David Sachs
- Born: November 5, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
- One of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people 2004 & 2005
- Was a Harvard University Full Professor with tenure at the age of 29
- Special adviser to United Nations Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
- Director of the UN Millennium Project 2002-2006
- President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending global poverty
- Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2007
- Authored the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (2005), for which Bono wrote the foreward
- BBC Reith Lecturer, 2007
- Member of the Institute of Medicine and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award in 2007
- Married to pediatrician Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and father of three children
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- Millions of people die every year for the stupid reason they are too poor to stay alive… That is a plight we can end.
- The basic truth is that for less than a percent of the income of the rich world nobody has to die of poverty on the planet. That's really a powerful truth.
- If you haven't noticed, people are dying. It's an emergency
- Either you decide to leave people to die or you decide to do something about it.
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Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sachs Entry
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Charlie Rose: Archived Sachs Appearances
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TIME: How to End Poverty
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GOOD Magazine Video: We are the generation that can end poverty, argues Jeffrey Sachs (Time 7:24)
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time - $19.00
Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling with concrete analysis, Jeffrey Sachs provides a conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall, explaining why wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved ...
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Escaping the Resource Curse (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization) - $29.95
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what i...
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The End of Poverty - $16.00
"A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world's 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 Tim...
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet - $17.00
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs—one of the world’s most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty— offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid pop...
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Jeffrey Sachs, Kazuyo Katsuma focus on world poverty in Japan talk (Pt. 4) http://bit.ly/syUzl #Japan
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Jeffrey Sachs, Kazuyo Katsuma focus on world poverty in Japan talk (Pt. 1) - The Mainichi Daily News http://bit.ly/2qeGtx
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Jeffrey Sachs, Kazuyo Katsuma focus on world poverty in Japan talk ... http://bit.ly/3Q6nrW
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The interview with Professor Jeffrey Sachs will be featured in the Economist that's published at the end of the month.
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View All Jeffrey Sachs Questions (20) | Ask a QuestionWhat type of securities does Goldman Sachs sell? (1 Answer)stocks and bonds...bonds also, trades commodities but those aren't securities also sells advice but also not a security read moreDid Goldman Sachs sale $700 million of Lehman stock? (1 Answer)Goldman Sachs Group Inc executives sold almost $700 million worth of stock since the collapse of rival Lehman Brothers last year, the Financial Times said on Monday. read moreWhat is the name of Jeffrey Dean Morgans secret son? (2 Answers)Mama Rose is not divulging the name, but sources say it's Dean, after Daddy Jeffrey. read more
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Jeffrey Sachs, professor, economist, author and pioneer of the “shock therapy” solution to economic crises acted as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa, and has worked extensively with the UN. Currently Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, Sachs also spent 20 years as a professor and researcher at Harvard University.
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Fast Facts:
- Full name: Jeffrey David Sachs
- Born: November 5, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
- One of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people 2004 & 2005
- Was a Harvard University Full Professor with tenure at the age of 29
- Special adviser to United Nations Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
- Director of the UN Millennium Project 2002-2006
- President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending global poverty
- Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2007
- Authored the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (2005), for which Bono wrote the foreward
- BBC Reith Lecturer, 2007
- Member of the Institute of Medicine and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award in 2007
- Married to pediatrician Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and father of three children
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Quotes:
- Millions of people die every year for the stupid reason they are too poor to stay alive… That is a plight we can end.
- The basic truth is that for less than a percent of the income of the rich world nobody has to die of poverty on the planet. That's really a powerful truth.
- If you haven't noticed, people are dying. It's an emergency
- Either you decide to leave people to die or you decide to do something about it.
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Jeffrey Sachs Audio and Visual
- YouTube Video: Interviewed on Real Time with Bill Maher (TIme 7:48), (April 25, 2008)
- BBC4 Radio: Bursting at the Seams (2007)
- YouTube: The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa Pt1 | Pt2 | Pt3 (Time 20:00)
- Charlie Rose: Archived Sachs Appearances
- Al Jazeera: Riz Khan Interview with Jeffrey Sachs(Time 22:00) (March 16, 2007)
- The Daily Show: Interview with Jeffrey Sachs(Time 5:47) (March 18, 2008)
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Jeffrey Sachs Blogs and Commentaries
- The New York Times: Angelina and Jeff's Excellent Ideas (September 19, 2005)
