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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

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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

Differentiated Analysis about the Possibilities for Poverty Reduction - Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor at the Columbia University and special advisor of the UN Secretary-General, is one of the best known academics in sustainable development policies and very reputable economic advisor. The End of Poverty is an absolute recommendable and convincing analysis about the current Official Development Assistance policy and their actual impact on the countries, which are caught in the poverty trap. In the first chapters of this book, Professor Sachs explains his approach of Differential Diagnosis of Poverty Reduction and what kind of preliminary considerations lead to this approach. In the following part he gives an insight in his wide experiences as economic advisor in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, China, India and Africa. Here he shows the applicability of his approach in practice. In the third part of his work he gives answers to important questions like, how could we overcome extreme poverty, how much would it cost and what timetable is realistic. Professor Sachs does not withhold with severe criticism on the donor governments like the European countries and especially the United States. He points out how less we are doing today to end extreme poverty and how less more would be required to end it. Furthermore Professor Sachs substantiates all his conclusions and requests with verifiable data and charts. These verifiable data and the realistic approach the whole study follows are the reasons why it is so convincing. Professor Sachs doesn t talk about the end of all poverty, but about the chance to end extreme poverty and to help poor countries onto the first step of the development ladder. Also he doesn t believe in the solution for the end of extreme poverty by one factor. Such a multilayer problem like extreme poverty cannot have a solution by one single factor. The answer of Professor Sachs to these approaches is the Differential Diagnosis. This is another reasons for the persuasive power of this book. I suggest this book to everybody, who wants to understand more about the extreme poverty, their reasons and how we can reduce extreme poverty effectively in our lifetime.

Ein ausgezeichneter Ansatz, eine wichtige Botschaft - Jeffrey Sachs hat es meiner Meinung nach geschafft, die Kernaussage dieses Buches, nämlich dass wir eine und im Grunde die erste Generation sind, die die weltweite extreme Armut aufhalten und unterbinden können, sehr überzeugungsstark zu verargumentieren. Es fällt einem leicht, ihm diese Aussage abzukaufen und man lässt sich gern von einem so gut vorgetragenen Werk überzeugen. Die Vergleiche, die Sachs aufstellt, haben es in Sich... die Daten und Fakten, mit denen er seine Standpunkte untermauert, sind mir teilweise so neu gewesen, dass ich es nicht fassen konnte, mit welchem Brett vor dem Kopf ich zuvor durch die Welt gelaufen bin. Das Beispiel, dass noch im Jahre 1820 fast alle Regionen der Welt auf gleichem Armutslevel gelebt haben und sich seit dem das Wachstum nur unterschiedlich verteilt hat - und woher dies kommt - all das legt Jeffrey Sachs ausgezeichnet dar.Einziges Manko, weshalb es hier nur 4 statt 5 Sterne gibt: Er schweift teilweise weit ab, erzählt von seinen eigenen Heldentaten zu ausführlich und wiederholt sich meines Erachtens nach auch häufig... aber was soll s, die Botschaft ist angekommen!

There is only an end of poverty if... - Books like this provides an impression of the dramatic evolution of mankind and its achievements and the results from it, as the climate change and the destruction of the environment. They make us attentive to our mistakes which we undoubtedly made in the last decades. That we however register too little very obviously and only have want slightly truly. The book gives several propositions to the economical around intend and for the juster distribution of the rich men to the arms. The author however, only rises the real cause low onto the basis: It is the world population climbed fast in the last hundred years. Society opponents and globalization critics like Jean Ziegler, Al Gore, Michael Moore and Jeffrey D. Sachs, go out from that, that with the corresponding redistribution of prosperity that difficulties into those the mankind brought themselves can become over-sore ones. With it are to be helped all experiments the arms of this world condemned for failing, if the population further increases. The part of the going ones of the world population went back to 18 percent in the year 2000 from 35 percent in the year 1960. However by doubling the number of the people around the world at this period, held itself the number of the going ones about one billion. It is 842 million according to the FAO. Want one monthly 30 US dollars each to hunger suffer human being set up available, would must angry for it dollars per annum more than of of 303 billion may be. That for instance corresponds to the military billing of the USA in 2001 at more than 322 billion dollars. A reduction of the number of our kind would be had to be striven in order to receive the problems of mankind into the grip and to prevent the destruction of our living space - in addition to all other measures for the reduction of our environment hostile behavior - also. There is only an end of poverty if we also undertake something against population growth.Walter Hain, Vienna, Austria.http://web.utanet.at/mahain/ReducingMankind.htm

Pflichtlektüre! - Jeffrey D. Sachs schildert in seinem Buch deutlich, wie man durch die Globalisierung und Marktwirtschaft die Armut bekämpfen kann. Er schildert an geschichtlichen Beispielen, dass dies bereits in einigen Teilen der Welt gelungen sei. Er macht gleichzeitig deutlich, weshalb es in Afrika nicht zu einer dauerhaften Entwicklungen gekommen ist. Er betont aber, dass die reichen Länder immer noch die Möglichkeit haben die Armut in Afrika zu beseitigen, wenn sie sich nicht nur auf ein Problem beschränken, sondern die Gelder auf mehrere Bereiche verteilen. Des weiteren sollen die Länder nicht meht bilateral die Armut bekäpfen, sondern multilateral. Eine besondere Rolle sollen hier die Weltbank und der IWF spielen.Insgesamt ein sehr empfehlendes Buch. Die einzige Kritik ist, dass er die Rolle der WTO nur am Rande bearbeitet.

viele seiten, wenig antworten - hab jetzt das ganze buch fertig gelesen und spüre eine innere leere in mir.im großen und ganzen hab ich durch das buch sehr viel gelernt und eine ganz andere sicht der dinge bekommen. aber trotzdem, find ich jeffry sachs werk als nicht vollkommen zufrieden stellend.die ersten 100 seiten fand ich toll. geschichtliche aspekte, etc. die nächsten 100 seiten waren reines selbstlob. jeffry sachs ist ein genie und hat viel in der welt bewirkt, doch hätte er seine selbstdarstellung etwas minimieren können und auf das wesentliche eingehen sollen.die letzten 100 seiten waren immer wieder wiederholungen der vorigen kapiteln. in jedem kapitel hat er das selbe, nur auf eine andere art und weise betont.sachs stellt viele gut durchdachte retorische fragen, doch ist manchmal nicht fähig, sie auch tiefgründigt zu beantworten.resume: das buch ist gut für den einstieg in diese materie. möchte man aber mehr antworten und tiefgründigkeit, dann sollte man sich vielleicht einen anderen lesestoff suchen.wie schon im ersten satz erwähnt, spüre ich im moment in mir ein haufen unbeantwortete fragen. zB warum die reiche welt nicht hilft, wenn es so einfach wäre. nur die gier als antwort reicht mir nicht. ich möchte eine tiefgründigere antwort.




The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time