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008			060302s2005 nyuab b 001 0 eng
020			_a0143036580 _c(pbk.)
020			_a9780143036586 _c(pbk.)
040			_aZOW _cZOW _dBAKER _dOUL
050	0	4	_aHC59.72.P6 _bS225 2005
082			_222 _a339.4609
100	1		_aSachs, Jeffrey
245	1	4	_aThe end of poverty : _beconomic possibilities for our time / _cJeffrey D. Sachs
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2005
300			_axviii, 397 p. : _bill. (some col.), col. maps ; _c22 cm
520			_aA 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
650		0	_aPoverty _zDeveloping countries
650		0	_aEconomic assistance _zDeveloping countries
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