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White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

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Jeffrey Sachs
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 5
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Jeffrey David Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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