The idea that UN commitments should be f... by Jeffrey Sachs

Author Idea Development Professor economist

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

- Jeffrey Sachs

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Rest Work World Will

Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

- Jeffrey Sachs

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Development

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Crisis

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Ideas Sense Rest World

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Benefits Rest World

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

- Jeffrey Sachs

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