The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Sachs, Jeffrey D.

ISBN 10: 1594200459 / ISBN 13: 9781594200458

Published by Penguin Press, U.S.A., 2005

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed by author on the ffep in March 2005 with an inscription "For Alexandra, with very best wishes, Jeffrey D. Sachs." DJ is not price clipped. Small amount of edge wear to DJ and a damp stain on the underside on the back section. Book is in overall near fine condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
• Publisher: Penguin Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594200459
• ISBN 13: 9781594200458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Adviser to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. He is internationally renowned for his work as economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1976, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980.