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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it.
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Outstanding
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Library Journal Lawrence R. Maxted
Informative and impassioned work. [1 May 2005, p.98]
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Favorable
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TLS: The Times Literary Supplement Stein Ringen
The End of Poverty is a beguiling read, earnest and honest and bursting with energy and confidence, but behind it all Sachs is guilty of a sort of IMF orthodoxy himself in his single-minded emphasis on economic development.
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Favorable
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The Independent Clare Short
I like this book very much. It is a very powerful, hard-headed account of how our generation has come to be the first in human history that could remove extreme poverty from the human condition.
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Favorable
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Booklist Mary Whaley
This is an excellent, understandable book on a critical topic and should be required reading for students and participants in public policy as well as those who doubt the problem of world poverty can be solved. [15 Feb 2005, p.1043]
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Favorable
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Kirkus Reviews
A solid, reasonable argument in which the dismal science offers a brightening prospect for the world's poor.
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Favorable
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Salon Farhad Manjoo
At bottom, the book, which is an intriguing mix of memoir, economics text, and polemic, argues that international development is worth pursuing, and that hope is not lost.
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Favorable
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San Francisco Chronicle Tom Gallagher
If Sachs spins a theory of economic development full of asterisks explaining why its contradictions are only apparent, then so does most economics, and we should not lose sight of his central point that the human race is looking at its main chance -- ending poverty worldwide over the next quarter century -- and we ought to take it.
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Favorable
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The New Yorker John Cassidy
The plan his book lays out is impressive not only in its ambition but in some of its details.
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Favorable
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Daily Telegraph Martin Vander Weyer
There can be no doubt that Sachs's is one of the most potent voices in global economics, and that The End of Poverty is a provocative and meticulously argued manifesto.
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Favorable
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Washington Post William Easterly
Perhaps someone so gifted and hardworking can be forgiven if his narrative is a little self-serving.
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Favorable
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Boston Globe George Scialabba
Sachs, one of the world's leading development economists, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and special adviser to the UN secretary general, sketches out a sequence of targeted, prioritized investments over 10 to 15 years. After that, if history is any guide, the formerly wretched will begin trading with us, competing with us, and enriching us.
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Favorable
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The Economist
The book is an unusual and in some ways slightly odd mixture of personal memoir, economics textbook and development manifesto.
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Mixed
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Tony Keller
It's been said of John Kenneth Galbraith, dismissively, that for a novelist he makes a fine economist. No one will speak as kindly of Sachs's prose. Yet The End of Poverty is persuasive.
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Mixed
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The Guardian John Vidal
Sachs seems to be suffering a dose of advanced consultivitis - symptoms include a swollen ego and a fervent belief that you can change the world.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review Daniel W. Drezner
Sachs's missionary zeal is infectious, but the flaws in ''The End of Poverty'' should sound important notes of caution.
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Mixed
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The Spectator Tim Congdon
Sachs has performed a service by bringing attention to the relatively small sums of money that are needed to tackle the hunger-disease-poverty nexus in sub-Saharan Africa. But he would have been more convincing if he had got his history and geography right, and if he were a little more subtle in his interpretation of what has gone wrong since the end of the old form of colonialism.
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Mixed
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Flak Noam Lupu
Not only is Sachs' vision fairly undemocratic, it fails to understand the politics of aid in both rich and poor countries.
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Mixed
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The Nation Andrew Rice
One might forgive Sachs's rhetorical overkill if it weren't emblematic of his book's deeper failure to engage with the most serious argument against him: history.
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Mixed
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New York Observer Richard Parker
Yet the sheer, raw, unspeakable nakedness of those facts -- and the reasons why they are true -- also underscores the limits to Mr. Sachs' fundamentally technocratic arguments here. Visionary as they are, technically substantiated as they are, morally right as they are, they contain no real analysis of the concentration of power, the maldistribution of wealth, the diversionary mindlessness of our commercialized culture, or the feeble-mindedness of our politics today. [25 Apr 2005, p.20]
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Unfavorable
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Wall Street Journal Claudia Rosett
Ending poverty is devoutly to be desired. If the U.S. cleaves to its own democratic principles in its dealings abroad, we do seem headed for a richer world for all. But no one is going to get there by flipping through the pages of this book.
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