Jeffrey D. Sachs quotes - page 3

The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional--rather than an accident of timing or geography. (Jeffrey D. Sachs)
I would tell you what you're saying is a glib slogan...not a reality about what development aid is about. And please, Australia, please do your part. You're a rich, wonderful, beautiful country that can afford to do more. And poor desperate children need it so that they can grow up to be healthy and be productive in our world. And, Australia, really, we count on you for that. View quote
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Donald Trump's "America First” foreign policy represents a new and vulgar strain of American exceptionalism. It proudly proclaims its intention to maintain U. S. military dominance as the core pillar of U. S. foreign policy. View quote
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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. View quote
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The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia. View quote
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White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. View quote
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The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. View quote
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America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. View quote
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The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. (Jeffrey D. Sachs)
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces. View quote
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If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days. View quote
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My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it. View quote
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I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize. View quote
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Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development. View quote
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In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided to borrow a bit more and do even better. View quote
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There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are not at war (except with our own demons). View quote
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