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In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
Jeffrey Sachs
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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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We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.
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It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.
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The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.
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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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The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
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The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
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