End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time

English

ISBN: 0143036580

EAN: 9780143036586

Category: Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy/Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries/Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 03/01/2006

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Jeffrey D. Sachshas been cited by The New York Times Magazineas probably the most important economist in the world and by Timeas the worlds best-known economist. He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the worlds poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all. Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic diagnosis of a countrys situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the worlds problems are, but how solvable they are-and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Povertyis a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world.

Awards: Lionel Gelber Prize – null 

End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Illustrated: Yes

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.92 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 13.47 oz

Pages: 416