Can the US change its spots?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1446091,00.html
Jeffery Sachs is feted by Bono, mixes with Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton
and Kofi Annan. Now, the world's most radical economic reformer has one
crusade - to rid the world of poverty. And he has Public Enemy Number
One in his sights ...
Gaby Wood
Sunday March 27, 2005
The Observer
The walls of Jeffrey Sachs's office at Columbia University are filled
with photos. Here is Sachs with the Pope, with U2's lead singer Bono,
with Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan; there is
Sachs with Glenn Close, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond ... Really, you
think as you glance around the room, Zelig should be so lucky. But
Sachs is something of a celebrity in his own right. He is the man who
has worked out a way to save the world.
The foremost economic reformer of our time, Sachs is universally
acknowledged as a brilliant mind. Now 50 years old, he became a tenured
professor at Harvard at the age of 28, and two years later he put an
end to Bolivia's hyperinflation in the space of a week. Since then,
whenever a country has been in crisis - Brazil, Peru, Poland, Russia -
Sachs has been called to the rescue. He is special adviser to the
United Nations and has launched the Global Fund to Fight Aids,
Tuberculosis and malaria. Sachs's latest ambition is this: to eliminate
world poverty by 2025.
Gaby Wood
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Jeffrey Sachs
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Poverty
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