Book description
Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a
thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the
world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets
the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains
why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and
evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so
markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the
remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India,
China and Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the
different problems countries face. In the end, readers will be left not
with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are, but how
solvable they are - and why making the effort is both our moral duty and
in our own interests. Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth
Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor
of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University as well as
Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. He is
internationally renowned for his work as economic advisor to governments
in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and
Africa.
