# The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-end-of-poverty-economics-possibilities-for-our-time/
- Published: 2006-01-05T10:26:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years’ experience to offer a thrilling
and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. **

Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing 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 trap 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 understanding 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.

With a foreword by U2’s Bono.