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Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
In The End of Poverty, he says much will depend on the choices made by Americans, who are paying a far smaller share of their income in foreign aid than they promised three years ago, and only a 30th of the 'nearly $500bn [£260bn] the US will spend this year on the military'.
click here for a bit of the book
(Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
In The End of Poverty, he says much will depend on the choices made by Americans, who are paying a far smaller share of their income in foreign aid than they promised three years ago, and only a 30th of the 'nearly $500bn [£260bn] the US will spend this year on the military'.
click here for a bit of the book
Prof UnderCover evitable,
Tue 3 May 2005, 13:41,
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Of course it could be eradicated.There's enough food, clean water, medicines, housing materials and general stuff to sort out everyone on the planet.
We just don't.
(We just don't.
Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Tue 3 May 2005, 13:48,
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