Jeffrey D. Sachs Quotes

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Jeffrey D. Sachs