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Can Jeffrey Sachs end Global poverty?

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Economist Jeffrey Sachs, the 51 year old acting as director of both Columbia's Earth Institute and the U.N Millennium Project who provides intellectual backing for the key demand for activists worldwide has laid plans to end extreme poverty by 2025. Sach's vision is breathtakingly ambitious by traditional global-development standards, which measured progress in tiny steps.

Publisher: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2005
Product standards, safety, & recalls, Strategy & planning, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Executive changes & profiles, Economists, Standards, Officials and employees, Aims and objectives, Sachs, Jeffrey D.

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New foreign aid program comes to town

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The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a new foreign aid program has come up in the US, which is designed to make economic-development grants to countries that embrace capitalism and meet the US set standards for democratic governance. MCC focuses on the issue of poverty alleviation and works for prosperity and opportunity.

Publisher: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2005
Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Government regulation, Administration of General Economic Programs, Legal/Government Regulation, Foreign Economic & Financial Assistance, Laws, regulations and rules, Forecasts and trends, Economic assistance, Foreign economic assistance, Market trend/market analysis

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From the ashes

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A plan to revive Europe began taking shape even before World War II ended, when British economist Paul Rosenstein-Rodan in 1943 published a strategy to spur recovery in Eastern and Southern Europe once the shooting stopped. The theme of fighting global poverty went through the newly formed United Nations, after the war.

Publisher: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2005
Europe, Economic aspects

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Subjects list: International aspects, Economic development, Poverty, United Nations
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