Jeffrey Sachs

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#economic #eight #gone #pain #russia

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#basic idea #benefit #concur #country #economic

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#crisis #essence #extreme #extreme poverty #fundamentally

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#commitments #especially #followed #idea #indeed

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#bitter end #destroyed #economy #end #fun

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#came #dramatic #dramatic way #imf #indonesia

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#blow #face #facing #froth #fully

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#american #economy #gave #ideas #innovative

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house