Experience, caring and solutions to end poverty

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	• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey Sachs Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 114 reviews view larger image
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Experience, caring and solutions to end poverty

I found this book to be exceptional because it offered solutions to poverty. Jeffrey Sachs brings a wealth of experience and knowledge and deep caring. I found all of his experiences enlightening and helped my understanding of the problems and what needs to be evaluated on a region by region basis. What I liked best was realistic offering of what needs to be done to end poverty and positive attitude that this can be done if we make the necessary changes in our thinking and actions.

Good ideas - questionable means

Very good. I liked so many things about the book - surprisingly though I have two significant compliants.

The solution that the "Very Rich." Billionaires should pay for everything is bogus. All of us whom are able need to have a share in the resolution. Secondly saying AIDS in Africa is not in part due to promiscuity is false - the author (Sachs) compares sub-saharan Africa (in terms of sexual partners per) to Rio De Janiero and Thailand. This is misleading - compare it to the US/Canada/Europe or whatever - not the most sexual places on earth.

Still a good read for awareness - I would hope it would motivate us to make a difference.

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Great concepts, poor politics

This serious look at tackling world poverty deserves utmost respect and serious thought from all of us concerned with the problems discussed. It is rather tarred in my opinion by the clearly anti-Bush/Republican bias, that is evidence throughout the last portion of the book. World poverty needs all of us working together, and that includes many who are strongly conservative in their philosophy and economics, and who are still deeply concerned about how we can best help the poorest of the poor.

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