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Het einde van de armoede: hoe we dit doel binnen twintig jaar kunnen bereiken
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.53 AVERAGE
51 reviews for:
Het einde van de armoede: hoe we dit doel binnen twintig jaar kunnen bereiken
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.53 AVERAGE
Read this for a political science class. I am so glad that I finished!
Nice to know at least one smart economist thinks it is possible. politics is a different matter.
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
I read this while in Liberia, I believe. Sachs basically argues that development is the way to go to fix poverty and our problem up to now is simply not injecting enough money into the problem. He’s been proven to be pretty wrong since then, his “millennium village project” was not successful. But it was written in 2006 so give him some slack? Anyway, only about half of his book is convincing. Need to read Easterly to compare…
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Insightful and compelling. Jeffrey Sachs shares his vast wealth of experience in helping turn around struggling economies from South America to Africa to Asia and Eastern Europe. I appreciated his concise introduction and overview to the economic history of the world; the comprehensive approach to diagnosing the poverty problem; the courage to stand up to the financial power-players of the world; his ability to decipher the nuances and merits of the antiglobalist movement's intentions without supporting the antiglobalist agenda; his appeal to governments, corporations, and individuals to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make extreme poverty a thing of the past. A thorough education.
“The worst meeting of all was with George Shultz, Secretary of State at the time, who spent half an hour explaining to the Bolivian planning minister how the United States had budget problems and that there was just no money to help the Bolivians.”
I get the point of the book, but hate how it was written. It was one part humble brag, one part mind numbing tables and seemingly endless percentages an dollar amounts, and then one part clear idea.
