The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs
Extreme poverty could be ended in a generation, if the rich world paid up.
Sachs argued that the poorest countries are caught in a poverty trap they cannot escape without a large, coordinated aid push in health, agriculture, and infrastructure. Blending clinical economics with moral urgency, he made the case for scaled-up financing behind the Millennium Development Goals. The optimistic, big-aid vision made him the chief foil to Easterly and Moyo and shaped 2000s policy.
Its legacy. Its poverty-trap thesis was tested, and widely questioned, through the Millennium Villages experience.
- Author
- Jeffrey Sachs
- First published
- 2005
- Genre
- Development economics
- Theme
- Political Economy and Development
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