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White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Jeffrey Sachs
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Jeffrey Sachs
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 5
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Michigan
Jeffrey David Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
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