He has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world"
and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders
and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the
world's poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a
thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that
are necessary to achieve prosperity for all.
Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid
conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de
force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across
the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel
vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic
diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on
high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work
in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of
the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything
he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and
social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding,
not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are-and why making the effort is a matter both
of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out
of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Poverty is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for
the world.