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| 1. | From Publishers Weekly |
| Sachs came to fame advising "shock therapy" for moribund economies in the
1980s (with arguably positive results); more recently, as director of
Columbia University's Earth Institute, he has made news with a plan... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com |
| Jeffrey D. Sachs's guided tour to the poorest regions of the Earth is
enthralling and maddening at the same time -- enthralling, because his
eloquence and compassion make you care about some very desperate people;
maddening,... read full editorial |
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| 3. | From Booklist |
| Sachs, economist and advisor to the UN, offers a blueprint for
eliminating--by 2025--the hunger and extreme poverty responsible for
millions around the world dying because of disease and lack of drugs. With
a foreward... read full editorial |
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| 4. | Time, March 14, 2005 |
| ...Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight of
the world's poorest people... |
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| 5. | The Economist |
| Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient....
Outstanding. |
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| 6. | Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek |
| [Paul Wolfowitz] should read Jeffrey Sachs's compelling new book, The
End of Poverty. |
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| 7. | The Guardian |
| "The End of Poverty is a gripping read... Sachs argues that extreme poverty
can be obliterated altogether by 2025." |
