The End of Poverty
Ranked #8 in Development Economics, Ranked #12 in Poverty — see more rankings.
Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones.... more
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Bill Gates CEO/Microsoft[On Bill Gates's reading list in 2011.] (Source)
Jeffrey D Sachs The book is an attempt to put forward this proposition that we have in our hands now the means to end extreme poverty within our generation. (Source)
Gretchen Peters Jeffrey Sachs gives a fascinating and very basic new way of looking at development. Essentially, we all benefit when the poorest people are better off. (Source)
Mark Malloch Brown A wonderfully powerful manifesto of how providing a basic global social safety net is an affordable and achievable objective. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The End of Poverty is ranked in the following categories:
- #68 in Economics
- #96 in Justice
- #26 in Macroeconomics
- #66 in Public Health
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