The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty |
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| Author:
| Munk, Nina |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7679-2942-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Bloomberg . Forbes . The Spectator Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs-celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller
The End of Poverty- launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about...
More Description NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg . Forbes . The Spectator
Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award
In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs-celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty- launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about ending poverty. For six years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his trips to Africa, listened in on conversations with heads-of-state and humanitarian organizations, and immersed herself in the lives of people in two remote African villages. Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs's formula for ending global poverty. The Idealist is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.