贫穷的终结
The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs · 初版 2005 年
3位读者提及
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一部探索世界最赤贫人口摆脱赤贫之路的里程碑式著作。作为历年来最受期待的图书之一，这部关于繁荣与贫困的里程碑式探索凝聚了一位经济学家的毕生心血，他被《Time》评为全球100位最具影响力的人物之一。Sachs 的目标正是勾勒出社会如何摆脱贫困的宏伟蓝图。为此，他带领读者追随他的足迹，阐述了他在玻利维亚、俄罗斯、印度、中国和非洲开展的工作，并针对交织在一起的经济、政治、环境……提供了一套综合解决方案。
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杰弗里·萨克斯（Jeffrey Sachs）的书《The End of Poverty》（贫困的终结）支持这种做法，即富裕的个人或国家协助勾销贫困国家的债务。偿还这些债务的成本往往沉重到足以让任何有意义的改善都…
A book by Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, argues in favor of this approach where, wealthy individuals or nations help write off debt of poorer countries. The cost of servicing this debt is often crushing enough that no meaningful uplifit is…
…可以下载，所以你自己核对下数据就行。参考文献里说得很清楚，原始数据是分摊在两年内的 1750 亿美元，是由经济学家杰夫·萨克斯（Jeff Sachs）给出的。他的书《The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time》里很可能包含具体的计算细节。
…downloadable so just check the numbers yourself. The references makes it clear that the original figure is $175 billion spread out over two years and is produced by economist Jeff Sachs. His book "The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time" probably contains details on how it was calculated.
…也做过 TED 演讲）。试图对整个援助行为做出宏大、一概而论的断言或泛泛的评判，本身就是一种有缺陷的做法。迪弗洛（Duflo）列举了两本书作为这种谬误的典型代表：杰弗里·萨克斯的《The End of Poverty》和威廉·伊斯特利（Will Easterly）的《White Man's Burden》。死盯着大问题和大答案会让人思维受蔽，阻碍行动。相反，迪弗洛提倡一种临床式的、细致入微的方法，这要有效得多…
…has also given a TED talk). Trying to make grand, blanket statements or generic judgements about aid as a whole, is a flawed exercise. Duflo holds up two books as the prime examples of this fallacy: The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs, and White Man's Burden by Will Easterly. Fixating on big-questions and big-answers clouds thinking and hampers action. Instead, Duflo teaches a clinical approach as infinitely more…