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End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time

A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then ... he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving ... at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, [the author] leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the ... stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are - and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest.

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  • "A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then ... he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving ... at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, [the author] leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the ... stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are - and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest."@en
  • "A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then ... he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving ... at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, [the author] leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the ... stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are - and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest."
  • "Jeffrey D. Sachs has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world's poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all. Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are'and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Poverty is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world."@en
  • "AT the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Newspapers proclaimed his genius in glowing personal profiles and quipped that 'the doctor has been called' because the great man 'has not invented anything since breakfast'. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light, a power generation and distribution system to sustain it, and the first motion picture cameras - all achievements more astonishing in their time than we can easily grasp today - Edison's name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels."@en
  • "Sachs, consigliere di Kofi Hannan per lo sviluppo dei paesi del Terzo Mondo, crede sia possibile debellare la povertà, almeno nelle sue forme più estreme, entro il 2025 e con essa risolvere parte dei problemi ambientali che affliggono la Terra. In questo libro presenta al grande pubblico i risultati di ricerche sul campo e studi compiuti nel corso di più di vent'anni."

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  • "Študije primerov"
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  • "El fin de la pobreza : cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo"@es
  • "El fin de la pobreza : cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo"
  • "End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time"@en
  • "The End of poverty : economic possibilities for our time"
  • "The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time"@en
  • "The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time"
  • "Pin'gon ŭi chongmal"
  • "La fine della povertà : come i paesi ricchi potrebbero eliminare definitivamente la miseria dal pianeta"@it
  • "La fine della povertà : come i paesi ricchi potrebbero eliminare definitivamente la miseria dal pianeta"
  • "The end of poverty : Economic possibilities for our time"
  • "El Fin de la pobreza : cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo"
  • "The end of poverty how we can make it happen in our lifetime"@en
  • "The end of poverty how we can make it happen in our lifetime"
  • "El fin de la pobreza : Cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo"@es
  • "The end of poverty : how we can make it happen in our lifetime"
  • "The end of poverty"@en
  • "The end of poverty"
  • "Het einde van de armoede : hoe we dit doel binnen twintig jaar kunnen bereiken"
  • "The End of Poverty"@en
  • "El fin de la pobreza cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo"@es
  • "The end of poverty : economic possibilites for our time"
  • "Slut på fattigdomen : hur vi kan åstadkomma detta i vår livstid"@sv
  • "End of poverty : economic possibilities for our time"@en
  • "Slut på fattigdomen : hur kan vi åstadkomma detta i vår livstid"
  • "La fine della povertà : come i paesi ricchi potrebbero eliminare definitivamente la miseria del pianeta"
  • "The end of povery : economic possibilities for our time"
  • "The end of poverty economic possibilities for our time"@en
  • "Das Ende der Armut : ein ökonomisches Programm für eine gerechtere Welt"
  • "The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time"
  • "Koniec z nędzą : zadanie dla naszego pokolenia"@pl
  • "Das Ende der Armut ein ökonomisches Programm für eine gerechtere Welt"

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