Ending Poverty

The End of Poverty is a roadmap for following the path towards a more prosperous and secure world.

"Sachs is an economist who makes sense of statistics. He can look up from a spreadsheet and see the lives behind the numbers."

BONO, U2 singer

For the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty in the world's most needy countries. But how do we stop the vicious cycle of disease, debt, and natural disasters that keeps more than a billion people on earth in backwardness?

Jeffrey D. Sachs, recognized by the New York Times as "probably the most important economist in the world," offers the answer in this book. After more than twenty-five years as a professor and economic advisor to various governments, and having worked in more than a hundred countries, Sachs combines the direct testimony of his travels with information and data from history and economics to offer a map of poverty in the world. He also explains why the gap between rich and poor countries has widened over time and why the poorest countries remain at abysmal levels of development.

This book, an essential reference for understanding the roots of economic prosperity, provides a great deal of data that invites reflection from the world's most fortunate citizens and presents the reader with an integrated system of economic solutions that combines political, environmental, social, and ethical aspects to propose realistic formulas that will allow the poorest countries to break free from the cycle of poverty before the year 2025.

Reviews:

"If there's one work that puts extreme poverty back on the global agenda, this is it." Publishers Weekly

"This is an excellent work on a critical topic and should be required reading in educational institutions and in the sphere of public policy, as well as for those who doubt that the problem of global poverty can be solved." Booklist