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Fewer people are aware of the role economist Jeffrey D. Sachs has played in providing the economic grounds for Bono's work. In his book The End of Poverty , for which Bono wrote the foreword, Sachs argues for the possibility of ending the extreme poverty of those who struggle each day to survive.
Through extensive analysis of the reasons why some countries are poor, he concludes that if aid from rich countries is raised to 0. While Sachs's book has a very strong analytical argument, it lacks some moral considerations necessary for it to be effective. Despite this, it represents an important step in raising awareness and advocacy for the possibility of an end to poverty.
Drawing from his wife's experiences as a pediatrician, he claims that development economists should act like physicians in carrying out a "clinical economics" and should accept the ethical responsibility this entails. Economists, he claims, should make "a commitment to be thoroughly steeped in the history, ethnography, politics, and economics of any place where the professional advisor is working.
The remainder of his book addresses the importance and cost of reaching the MDGs worldwide. Sachs argues that the rich countries can and should give the 0. If this ODA were used to make investments indicated by a differential diagnosis of each country's situation, Sachs claims that it would be more than sufficient to bring about the end of extreme poverty.
His calculations show that it is theoretically possible to end extreme poverty within the bounds of the relatively small commitment of 0. If the necessary investments were made to lift countries out of the "poverty trap" preventing them from entering market-driven development, he claims, the results would be tremendous: fertility and infant mortality rates would decrease; literacy rates especially of women would increase; and lifespan would increase.
Sachs' outrage at the ongoing neglect of the poor, which is the driving force behind his book, becomes even more poignant in light of the facts he presents. If ending extreme poverty is possible, he finds it inexcusable not to do so. His book may serve to raise consciousness of poverty and, especially in conjunction with Bono's campaign, may spur people to take the sorts of actions he proposes. He argues that eliminating poverty is the logical result of Enlightenment-era philosophies, calling it "Enlightened Globalization.
Often, those who see a need simply refuse to act upon it. As he notes, "It was not that U. However, he neglects to address constructive passions, such as his own sense of moral outrage, which can motivate people to carry out the course of action reason dictates. Though he notes that actions against slavery, colonialism, and racism all shared the characteristic of appealing to "enlightened self-interest as well as basic religious and ethical precepts, " he does not include any religious appeal and is not explicit about ethical precepts that could harness the constructive passions that drive many people.
Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and director of the Earth Institute, is one of our leading public intellectuals. A trained economist who became a full professor at Harvard University when he was only 29 years old , Sachs boldly ventures into other disciplines. He is as agile citing the latest biological studies on habitat change as he is referring to obscure econometric research on monetary policy.
Unlike many academics, Sachs is committed to getting his ideas out to the public, authoring the best-selling book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time and, most recently, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. And he is not afraid to put his theories into action. In the s Sachs helped the Bolivian government fight hyperinflation; in the s he helped Poland and Russia transition from communism to capitalism; and in the s he worked with U.
How would you characterize the state of affairs? Jeffrey Sachs: The world has become extraordinarily crowded with about 6. As a result, we have a remarkable amount of geopolitical change, from unprecedented economic success stories like China, to calamitous economic andhumanitarian crises like the one in the Horn of Africa. When you add it all together, I see a crowded, interconnected, and environmentally stressed world, facing the added stress of huge political change and very deep crises in certain regions.
The challenge is finding a path that brings rising levels of prosperity for all that does not simultaneously undermine the physical life-support systems of the planet—in other words, sustainable development. You have been working on economic development for more than 25 years. When did you begin to understand the ecological aspects of the issue? For a long time I thought of the challenge of globalization mostly in economic terms—how can each part of the world find an effective role in what is quickly becoming a single integrated global economy.
For example, the epidemic diseases that engulfed Africa, especially in the last 25 years with the spread of AIDS, but also the resurgence of malaria and other killers. As I began to look more closely at those issues, and especially as I got more involved in the rural challenges in south Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the fragility of the resource base became a more and more dramatic signal that something was wrong.
I was seeing it with my own eyes. Entire regions were trapped in famine by repeated droughts, where the short rains had essentially disappeared entirely and the land was so degraded that large areas were bereft of reliable crops. None of this is novel to an ecologist or to those who have been in the forefront of environmental challenges.
I discovered it by wending through this maze of challenges, starting from macroeconomics, moving on to development, coming to realize the impact of disease, food production, and hunger, and more recently dealing with challenges like energy, climate change, and water.
A problem of this magnitude can seem unsolvable. How do you make it a manageable problem that people believe can be solved? As we train ourselves to address these problems we need to be able to pull them apart to their constituent components.
But we also need to be able to go in the other direction, because many of the areas of expertise and technology that are a part of the solutions are now inside silos.
The intellectual and practical tasks are both to take a large problem and put it into manageable components, and at the same time move in the other direction that brings different parts of the university, different parts of our knowledge system, and different parts of government together so that we can find the cross-linkages.
I think government is the harder one to change. Great universities recognize not only that they are engaged in the research and teaching of disciplinary expertise, but that they also have to be engaged in problem solving.
Maybe it would have been much worse. Or maybe it would have been better. We have no idea. The weakness that dooms most plans like the Millennium Villages to failure is best summarized by the Yale political scientist James C. Though much smaller in scale than these examples—and certainly less deadly—the Millennium Villages Project proceeded along similar lines.
Sachs seems defeated by Africa, but defeated in the manner of charismatic savior figures everywhere, for whom setbacks only ever spur quests for new, bigger stages.
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