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Jeffrey D. Sachs

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is also Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. His books include The End of Poverty and Common Wealth.


Commentaries by Jeffrey D. Sachs

  • Newsart for Sustainable Visions

    Sustainable Visions

    NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is mobilizing global action around the great challenge of our time: sustainable development. It …

  • Newsart for Why Turkey is Thriving

    Why Turkey is Thriving

    NEW YORK – A recent visit to Turkey reminded me of its enormous economic successes during the last decade. The economy has grown rapidly, in…

  • Newsart for Suffer the Children, Suffer the Country

    Suffer the Children, Suffer the Country

    NEW YORK – Children are every country’s most vital resource. This is true not just morally, but also economically. Investing in the health, …

  • Newsart for Paths to Sustainable Power

    Paths to Sustainable Power

    NEW YORK – The surest bet on the future of energy is the need for low-carbon energy supplies. Around 80% of the world’s primary energy today…

  • Newsart for A Better Way to Fight Climate Change

    A Better Way to Fight Climate Change

    NEW YORK – Of all major world regions, Europe has worked the hardest to implement policies aimed at countering human-caused climate change. …

  • Newsart for America’s New Progressive Era?

    America’s New Progressive Era?

    NEW YORK – In 1981, US President Ronald Reagan came to office famously declaring that, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Gover…

  • Newsart for Writing the Future

    Writing the Future

    ADDIS ABABA – What does the future hold for the global economy? Will living standards rise worldwide, as today’s poor countries leapfrog tec…

  • Newsart for Gun Control After Newtown

    Gun Control After Newtown

    NEW YORK – The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a re…

  • Newsart for Polluters Must Pay

    Polluters Must Pay

    NEW YORK – When BP and its drilling partners caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the United States governm…

  • Newsart for The Lost Generations

    The Lost Generations

    NEW YORK – A country’s economic success depends on the education, skills, and health of its population. When its young people are healthy an…

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