...More than two decades ago, long before ambition and optimism conspired to make him the Man Who Would Save the World, Jeffrey Sachs was merely the Man Who Would Save Bolivia. As a precocious 28-year-old, already a tenured professor in Harvard's economics department,...
...power. You believe in nuclear power. In his appearance last week on NPR Science Friday (audio), Columbia University's Jeffrey Sachs framed the climate challenge not in terms of regulating pollution but rather as an energy and technology problem. Sachs brings...
...author's ambitious title—The End of Poverty—I picked up the book on a whim. Later, I’d learn that the mystery author, Jeffrey Sachs, was a world-renowned economist, special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General, and Director of The Earth Institute...
...a divided global society and well as the big question is how can we use the first of those things to fix the second? Jeffrey Sachs: I think the key is better understanding of the unique situation we find ourselves in. The world is now so crowded. The extent...
...his coffee and sweeping away some of the most intractable problems facing our planet with the barest waft of his palm. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘We all have common interests and common problems’ Poverty and a billion starving people in Africa? Whisked away...
... Wed, Apr 9, 2008 -- 9:00 AM Jeffrey Sachs -- Jeffrey Sachs may be the only international economics professor who has had his own MTV video -- documenting his trip to Africa with Angelina Jolie -- and he continues to be a leading voice promoting solutions...
...Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: saving the planet and all of us who call it home. His new book, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, explores...
...poor ones in Africa. The International Advisory Panel (IAP) on National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), headed by Jeffrey Sachs, would be in town early next month to study NRHM’s progress. The panel will explore the possibility of replicating it elsewhere,...
...setting out his agenda for Bretton Woods II, Professor Jeffrey Sachs has gone far. He proposes a Tobin tax – a tax that has been a bete noire of the international financial industry and hence the rich country's, especially US, governments. His rejection of...
...Elizabeth Dickinson spoke with economist Jeffrey Sachs this week about how the financial crisis will affect the world's poorest. Surprisingly, Sachs doesn't think the mayhem on Wall Street necessarily spells doom for people living in low-income countries....