The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
The case that extreme poverty can be ended within a generation, and the plan behind the Millennium Development Goals.
Sachs draws on twenty-five years of advising governments to argue that extreme poverty can be ended within a generation, because the poorest countries are held in a trap that targeted investment in health, agriculture and infrastructure can break. Published in 2005 with a foreword by Bono, it is the fullest statement of the case behind the Millennium Development Goals.
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