11 Quotes & Sayings By Jeffrey D Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs is an economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. From 1982 to 1991, he was director of the United Nations Development Programme, where he directed a global effort to end extreme poverty and hunger. As a scholar, he has published widely on poverty, development economics, human rights, and energy policy. In 2004, his book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time became a best seller in more than twenty countries Read more

He is also the author of Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2004) and The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005).

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until...
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The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved. Jeffrey D. Sachs
The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In...
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The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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World is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them. Jeffrey D. Sachs