An curved arrow pointing right. Jeff Sachs, economist and author of "The Age of Sustainable Development," discusses the problems associated with extreme poverty and how it's within our reach to ...

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and director of the ... authoring the best-selling book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time and, most recently, Common Wealth: ...

Recall the criticism directed at Jeffrey Sachs’ 2005 book, The End of Poverty, which proposed, ironically, annual $100 billion foreign aid. Why should climate aid be different? Fink is correct ...

Columbia University’s Director of the Center for Sustainable Development said Sunday that U.S. support for Israel makes ...

Over the past decade or so, Sachs’s attention has been focused on Africa and on bringing about an end to poverty there. He was instrumental in the success of the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign to ...

Program Manager for Global Poverty and Inequality Data, Development Data Group, World Bank. 10:00 a.m. EDT A conversation with Indermit Gill, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice ...

It should therefore be seen as a calculation of the minimum necessary growth for an end of poverty. Higher growth rates in poor ... This is just five times more than the bonus Goldman Sachs staff paid ...

Three weeks ago, Tucker Carlson invited economist Jeffrey Sachs for an interview ... capturing the Bosporus and the ...

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the innovative micro-credit bank he founded, jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts toward reducing poverty in Bangladesh. A former economics ...

Kiš’s new book, The Development Trap: How Thinking Big Fails the Poor, read as a manifesto to convince those working in international development that poverty will never ... Kiš repeatedly cites ...

To that end, the Indian government subsidized ... Columbia's Sanchez, along with über-economist and poverty warrior Jeffrey Sachs, is providing concrete examples of the benefits of such ...

All Bolivians will benefit, he continues, “taking them out of poverty, guaranteeing their ... according to Goldman Sachs. The investment firm also projects that every time electric-vehicle ...