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El Fin De La Pobreza

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El fin de la pobreza es una hoja de ruta para seguir el camino hacia un mundo más próspero y más seguro. «Sachs es un economista que da sentido a las estadísticas. Puede levantar la vista de una hoja de cálculo y ver las vidas que hay detrás de los números.» BONO, cantante de U2 Por primera vez en la historia nuestra generación tiene la oportunidad de acabar con la pobreza extrema de los países más necesitados del mundo. Pero ¿cómo detener el círculo vicioso de enfermedad, endeudamiento y catástrofes naturales que mantiene en el atraso a más de mil millones de habitantes de la tierra? Jeffrey D. Sachs, reconocido por el New York Times como «probablemente el economista más importante del mundo», ofrece la respuesta en este libro. Tras más de veinticinco años como profesor y asesor económico de distintos gobiernos y de trabajar en más de cien países, Sachs une el testimonio directo de sus viajes con la información y los datos de la historia y la economía para ofrecer un mapa de la pobreza en el mundo. Explica, además, por qué la distancia entre los países ricos y los países pobres se ha ido agrandando con el tiempo y por qué los países más pobres permanecen en unos niveles ínfimos de desarrollo. Este libro, referencia obligada para conocer las raíces de la prosperidad económica, aporta gran cantidad de datos que invitan a la reflexión de los ciudadanos más afortunados del mundo y presenta al lector un sistema integrado de soluciones económicas que combina aspectos políticos, medioambientales, sociales y éticos para proponer fórmulas realistas que permitan a los países más pobres salir del ciclo de la pobreza antes del año 2025. Reseñ «Si hay una obra que vuelva a situar la pobreza extrema en la agenda mundial, es ésta.» Publishers Weekly «Esta es una obra excelente sobre un tema crítico y debería ser lectura obligatoria en los centros educativos y en la esfera de la política pública, así como para aquellos que dudan de que el problema de la pobreza mundial pueda ser resuelto.» Booklist

552 pages, Paperback

First published April 7,2005

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552 pages, Paperback
Published
November 15, 2005 by DEBATE
ISBN
9788483066430
ASIN
8483066432
Language
Spanish; Castilian

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Jeffrey David Sachs, is an American economist, public policy analyst, and former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.

Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. As of 2017, he serves as special adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in September 2015. He held the same position under the previous UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and prior to 2016 a similar advisory position related to the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by the year 2015. In connection with the MDGs, he had first been appointed special adviser to the UN Secretary-General in 2002 during the term of Kofi Annan.

In 1995, Sachs became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the MDGs. He is director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-editor of the World Happiness Report with John F. Helliwell and Richard Layard. In 2010, he became a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, whose stated aim is to boost the importance of broadband in international policy. Sachs has written several books and received many awards.

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Tedbaxter
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April 26,2025
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A new way to think of global economics, for sure. I need some time to process his concept of capitalism with a heart as the best vehicle for social justice. I can respect the way Sachs tries to find a middle ground between dog-eat-dog free-market systems and closed authoritarian systems. A little repetitive at the end and not super well-written.
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Stumpkin
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April 26,2025
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I found Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty to be extremely enlightening and informative on the issues of poverty, globalization, and the issues developing countries face that prevent them to achieve the first steps towards economic development. I'll admit to having no prior knowledge or experience in this area, especially in economics. There were parts of the book where I became confused by the data explained and density of the writing, but, in general, Sachs' ideas are easy to comprehend and clarified in very specific detail. Sachs shows how all issues, like climate, health, poverty, technology, etc., are interconnected and effective different communities. Sachs passionately argues on what the reader and the global community can do to help improve the conditions of impoverished countries and communities. Additionally in the book, Sachs describes his work as an economist and advisor to other countries, like Bolivia, Poland, and India. His recount of his experience in those countries are fascinating to read about and I don't find myself saying that often about economics. This book was thorough, thoughtful, and gave the reader information that appears very practical to implement. After finishing The End of Poverty , I definitely felt Sachs' call to action to end extreme poverty.
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April 26,2025
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Fantastic, thought-provoking, well-researched book with compelling arguments and sound rhetoric.

Seeing as this book was published 18 years ago, some of the stats are outdated/irrelevant to the current times, and I found myself fast-reading these sections. The overall ideas about working together (globally) to address this issue is something I think we should still be talking about and supporting. Also tax the super rich.
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Noitrus
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April 26,2025
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Good introductory book to development, foreign aid, etc. Sachs brings easy-to-read insights from his experiences advising leaders of lower and middle-income nations in Europe and South America that are instructive but leave me wanting more of a layered picture beyond "policy designed and implemented successfully". He gives a great walkthrough of the various challenges and solutions (macro and micro) that have been proposed and saved lives in the 20th century. Notably, this book spends significant time discussing the American talk and walk around foreign aid which is helpful given how large of a presence the US government plays globally.

He spends a lot of time proposing different solutions towards development, all of which have good evidence but I'm not a big fan of how he spends significant time repeatedly asking rich nations and individuals to give x% of their income to alleviate world poverty in one go. The solution is not as simple as getting enough funding to donating millions of mosquito nets and I wish he spent more time acknowledging the geopolitical angle of aid rather than simply asking for more money.
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andiefeder
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April 26,2025
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I do think that a lot of things have changed since this book has actually come out but I do really appreciate the way that Jeffrey Sachs thinks about poverty and makes it something that everyone can understand and understand his reasoning behind his proposals. It definitely made me think and made me question what we are doing in our world today to eradicate extreme poverty as well as think about reasons why some nations and areas of the world are in extreme poverty and some of the biases that continue to be held about why that is and what is founded and how a lot of it is completely unfounded.
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April 26,2025
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CORRUPTION IS NOT THE CAUSE OF POVERTY
IT'S THE UNFORTUNATE ORIGIN

It greatly signifies poverty, a problem that must be handled with infallible plan, with efforts from everywhere around the world is must. Thanks to it's simple use of language, I was able to understand myriad basics and background details of economic development and governance in a respectable degree. But it almost felt like a guide book (like a youtube video tutorial hehe
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MacAnkkuli
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April 26,2025
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The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs is one part flex, one part theory, and one part redundantly asking for money. I actually enjoyed the first two parts but found myself bored and uninterested having to wade through the third.

Sachs begins his book discussing his different experiences being brought in as an economic advisor helping restructure economies ranging from Bolivia to Poland to India. As someone studying economics at university, it was interesting to see the practical uses of the theory learned in class. When pure economic theory is free to be applied, it can actually do good. I know there is more nuance to economics than this, but I enjoyed the behind the scenes look at how approached economic reforms.

As for his theory, I was more divided but still intrigued. His arguments relating overall prosperity to physical geography rubbed me the wrong way initially; however, Sachs eventually provided enough context and examples to win me over. My favorite theory was his idea of clinical economics. The oft-seen issue with economics is how often it just doesn't work. That's because it is applied uniformly without looking at the surrounding context the economic problem is situated in. Sachs' idea to transform the application of economics to mirror the application of medicine lessens this obstacle and leads to better economic outcomes. Sachs emphasizes throughout the book how important local context is to the success of economic policy. Some policies just won't work in a country because of culture, geography, education, public support, etc.

Sachs' solution to the problem of global poverty was to have the US and other developed countries contribute more aid to poor countries. He spends what feels like half the book reiterating this point. He argues that the US could easily increase aid to 0.7% of GNP and that it would hardly amount to anything for such a wealthy nation. While this may be true, he fails to create a convincing argument as to why this money should go abroad in the form of aid rather than used domestically to serve our own people. His arguments keep circling on how this isn't much money which quickly became repetitive and made the second half of the book boring.

I would recommend reading the first half of this book simply for his experiences and take on clinical economics.
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FranBunnyFFXII
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April 26,2025
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Poor Jeffrey Sachs. He reminds me of the autistic kid in elementary school who isn't sure why no one likes reading the marginalia of comic books as much as he does. After all, the other kids like Spiderman too. So why doesn't everyone else want to do the cross-referencing (I may have been awfully close to being that kid)?

Jeffrey Sachs' basic perspective is that all we have to do to solve poverty is pump aid money in and engage in debt relief. Let's ignore, for a moment, the fact that he was largely responsible (intellectually, and to a certain extent in practice) for disastrous shock programs in Eastern Europe that threw millions into sudden poverty, provided a fertile ground for the rise of crony capitalists of the worst order, and largely fueled the rise of neo-fascism, but let's look at his starry-eyed worldview, a world in which if enough nice people do nice things, everything will be nicer.

But he ignores everything that would prevent this from happening, because he's, I'm guessing a very personable head-in-the-clouds idealist. He's right to criticize "cultural" explanations of poverty, and right to criticize the IMF and World Bank for keeping countries poor. And yet he ignores the brutal realities of extractive economies, the ways in which foreign capital colludes with militaries and gleefully ignores local laws, and the ways in which the aid machine pats donors' backs without making a real difference.
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