The End of Poverty

For the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty in the world’s most desperate nations. But how can we shop the cycle of bad health, bad debt and bad luck that holds back more than a billion people? Jeffrey D. Sachs, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and ‘probably the most important economist in the world’ (The New York Times) has the answers. He has traveled and worked in over 1000 countries across the globe-from Africa to India, Poland to Bolivia-advising leaders on economic development and poverty reduction. Here he lays out how poverty has been beaten in the past, how in realistic, attainable steps-we can make a real difference for the one-fifth of humanity who still live in extreme poverty, how they can find partnership with their wealthy counterparts to escape the poverty trap, how little it will actually cost, and how everyone can help.