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.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
Commentaries by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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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, …
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Finding the Keys to National Prosperity
NEW YORK – In many of history’s most successful economic reforms, clever countries have learned from the policy successes of others, adaptin…
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A Global Solutions Network
NEW YORK – Great social change occurs in several ways. A technological breakthrough – the steam engine, computers, the Internet – may play a…
Finding the Keys to National Prosperity
Dallas Weaver, Ph.D.: He seems to be saying, "we can know what to do, but we don't seem to be able to do it". Doing anything significant means harming a few established politically connected interests, ranging from the su…
Suffer the Children, Suffer the Country
J St. Clair: suffer the parent, suffer the country