Let's start fresh with Russia on some re... by Jeffrey Sachs | We Heart Quotes

Author Help Development Professor economist

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Other quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

Being World

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

- Jeffrey Sachs

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

Depression World Will

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

- 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

Experience World

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Financial Drama End

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

- Jeffrey Sachs

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