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| 1. | Budget priorities and values |
| (NJ) April 5, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars |
| March 30th, 2005
Dear Professor Sachs,
Recently
you are everywhere: on the cover of TIME magazine, on NPR, on 91.5 FM.
Your book The End of Poverty touches a nerve. It's perhaps like a clarion
call because your approach... read full review |
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| 2. | John Zxerce's comment |
| (New York, NY USA) March 18, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars |
| I would just like to clarify 2 issues regarding Mr. Zxerce's comment on
U.S. development assistance.
First, using numbers from 2000
(as Mr. Zxerce does), the OECD reports that the U.S. gave only $7.4 billion
in... read full review |
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| 3. | Development as it should be taught and understood |
| (NY, NY) March 18, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars |
| If you are going to read one book only about world development, make sure
this is the one.
A momentous account of the current state of
world development, told by one of the people who understand the topic best
in... read full review |
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| 4. | End poverty; start what? |
| (East Coast, USA) March 30, 2005 - 4.0/5 stars |
| While I think Jeffrey Sachs' work is critically important, there is
something equally important I have learned from my studies of systems
thinking (specifically the work of Drs. R. Buckminster Fuller, W. Edwards
Deming,... read full review |
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| 5. | Conclusions of deficiency |
| (Oxbridge, UK) March 27, 2005 - 3.0/5 stars |
| Jeffrey Sachs' passionate call to end world poverty is a much needed one.
He sets towering goals in relationship to the solemn problem of poverty.
However, I believe Sachs' solution for attaining those goals raises... read full review |
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| 6. | Interesting but utopic. |
| (Oxbridge, UK) April 3, 2005 - 2.0/5 stars |
| This is an interesting book by one of the leading specialists in economic
development. His diagnosis of what ails the economic development of many
Third World countries, and the African continent in particular is
excellent... read full review |
