The End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time

US: Gardners Books, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thril ling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world toda y. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by dr awing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the tra p of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia , Poland, Russia, India, China and Africa to bring readers with him to an u nderstanding of the different problems countries face. In the end, readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are and why making the effort is both our moral duty and in our own interests.