Can extreme poverty be eliminated?

• Autores: Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 293, Nº. 3, 2005, págs. 56-65
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Discusses whether a solution can be found to eliminate extreme poverty. Way that global economic prosperity has placed the world within reach of eliminating extreme poverty; Description of a plan, that appears in the book "The End of Poverty," that would halve the rate of extreme poverty by 2015; Key points of the plan; Comments on poverty in Africa; Need for wealthy countries to pool their resources to help end poverty in less developed countries. INSETS: CROSSROADS FOR POVERTY;CHRONIC POVERTY: RICH WORLD, POOR PEOPLE;GLOBALIZATION, POVERTY AND FOREIGN AID;EXTREME POVERTY: WHERE WE STAND