Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Jeffrey Sachs - Page 2

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.

The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided to borrow a bit more and do even better.