kfreedman 's review for:

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs

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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…