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The End of Poverty : Economic possibilities for Our time
These acknowledgments must perform double duty. In writing this book, I have depended upon countless acts of support, generosity, and guidance. But perhaps more important, in engaging with the challenges of our global society and deeply divided world, I have depended upon steadfast colleagues, teachers, and leaders. This is an important opportunity for me to thank them for a lifetime of collegiality and support. I naturally begin with my family, wife Sonia, daughters Lisa and Hannah, and son Adam. This has been a family effort, through two decades of redefining "vacation" as listening to Dad give another lecture in a sweltering room in a village in East Africa. Sonia has been my guide, inspiration, teacher of differentia] diagnosis, and partner and coauthor in development studies. My kids, I'm proud to say, have seen all corners of the developing world and have taken up the challenge of global development themselves. Their wonderment at what we see together is my inspiration to fight for the future for them. In all of this family effort, the wisdom of my father-in-law, Walter Ehrlich, the good sense of my mother, Joan Sachs, and the avid interest of my sister, Andrea Sachs, all played a tremendous role in keeping us on the right track. So too has the enduring moral compass of my late father, Theodore Sachs, who devoted his great lawyerly gifts and energies to the struggle for social justice. For twenty years I have been blessed to be welcome in all parts of the world and to have colleagues who joined me in understanding the local conditions and challenges and in fitting those challenges into the broader global canvas. My earliest colleagues in Bolivia were Daniel Cohen and Felipe Larrain, lifelong companions in intellectual forays. David Lipton left the IMF to join me in work in Latin America and Eastern Europe and then went on to a scintillating role in international political economy during the Clinton administration. Wing Woo has tutored me on Asia for a quarter century and has been my guide, coauthor, and coadviser in many valuable efforts. Nirupam Bajpai has been X ACKNOWLEDGMENT S steadfast and accurate as a keen observer, scholar, coauthor, and adviser on all aspects of India's remarkable reforms during the past decade. The best way to become a successful economic adviser is to advise successful governments. I've been extremely fortunate to do that. My earliest adventure was in Bolivia, under the remarkable leadership of the late President Victor Paz Estenssoro and his top economic aide and later president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. Both taught me about the practical politics of successful economic reforms and the value of honesty and love of country in achieving broader political successes. In Poland, Larry Lindenberg played the pivotal role in introducing me to Solidarity's remarkable leaders, including Adam Michnik, Jacek Kuron, Bronislaw Geremek, and of course Lech Walesa. Leszek Balcerowicz, the brave and brilliant leader of Poland's reforms, made us all look good. I admire Poland's long-serving president, Alexander Kwasniewski, and remain in his debt for the honor he bestowed upon Lipton and me in awarding us one of Poland's highest civilian awards, the Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit. President Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia not only taught me about the tangled politics of the Balkans during the past two decades, but also inspired me with his leadership and honored me with the chance to contribute to Slovenia's birth as an independent country. In Russia, I want to thank my advisory partner Anders Aslund and pay special tribute to three reformers who struggled bravely against the odds: Yegor Gaidar, Boris Fedorov, and Grigory Yavlinsky. My work in Africa has been blessed by help and guidance from a large number of colleagues and African leaders. I am especially grateful to Calestous Juma, Dyna Arhin-Tenkorang, Wen Kilama, Charles Mann, and Anne Conroy. My ardent hopes for Africa are fueled by the powerful and visionary leadership that I have seen in abundance throughout the continent, in contrast to the typical uninformed American view about Africa's governance. In particular I would like to thank Africa's new generation of democratic leaders who are pointing the way, including former President Alberto Chissano of Mozambique, President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, former Vice President Justin Mulawesi of Malawi, President Festus Mogae of Botswana, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. The world is held together, however precariously, by the vision, leadership, and struggle of its leaders who are committed to a world of justice, equality, and rule of law. The greatest of these is UN Secretary- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI General Kofi Annan, whose quiet resolve has helped to keep the world from falling over the precipice in recent years. Another great leader is Gro Harlem Brundtland, who gave me the honor to serve the World Health Organization during her tenure as WHO director general. The WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health helped to show the way toward scaling up basic investments for the poor. My fellow commissioners are incomparable leaders in their respective fields, including Manmohan Singh, India's current prime minister; Richard Feachem, director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria; Supachai Panitchkadie, the director general of the World Trade Organization; and Harold Varmus, director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The UN agencies are filled with talented and dedicated leaders, and I have been honored to work closely with them in recent years: Mark Malloch Brown, administrator of UNDP, who has championed the UN Millennium Project from the start; Joseph Chamie, director of the UN Population Division; Zephirin Diabre, deputy administrator of UNDP and my guide to the economies of the African Sahel; former IMF managing director and current president of Germany, Horst Kohler, who during his stint at the IMF pressed the case for more global justice in resource allocation; Anna Tibaijuka, the remarkable Tanzanian-born leader of UN Habitat; Klaus Topfer, the relendessly talented head of the UN Environmental Program; and Jim Wolfensohn, the brave and energetic leader of the World Bank. I am also grateful for the marvelous collegiality of World Bank Chief Economists Nick Stern and Francois Bourguignon, and IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan. Many of the specific ideas on how to end global poverty have emerged from the work of the UN Millennium Project, which I am honored to direct and from which I have drawn amply in this book. This project would have slid off the rails from the start without the unerring, beyond-the-callof-duty leadership of John McArthur, my day-to-day colleague in the effort. John and I, in turn, have depended upon a spectacular secretariat, including Chandrika Bahadur, Stan Bernstein, Yassine Fall, Erie Kashambuzi, Margaret Kruk, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Erin Trowbridge, and round-theclock assistants Alberto Cho, Michael Faye, Michael Krouse, Luis Javier Montero, Rohit Wanchoo, and Alice Wiemers. The leaders of the UN Millennium Project Task Forces, and allied scientists and policy experts, are my teachers and guides through the interconnected fields of agronomy, water management, climate, energy systems, disease control, and other areas of central concern for poverty XII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS reduction and long-term development. Happily, many of these marvelous world-class scientists are my colleagues at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. I am happy to give special thanks to Columbia colleagues Deborah Balk, Wallace Broecker, Bob Chen, Lynn Friedman, James Hansen, Klaus Lackner, Upmanu Lall, Roberto Lenton, Marc Levy, Don Melnick, Vijay Modi, John Mutter, Cheryl Palm, Allan Rosenfield, Josh Ruxin, Pedro Sanchez, Peter Schlosser, Joseph Stiglitz, Awash Teklehaimonot, Ron Waldman, Paul Wilson, and Stephen Zebiak, who have played such a key role in expanding my understanding of the challenges of sustainable development. Columbia University's inspiring president, Lee Bollinger, has strongly backed the Earth Institute in this and its other endeavors, and for that I am grateful. I also thank all of the task force coordinators and task force members for making the UN Millennium Project the extraordinary effort that it has been. None but the incomparable Bono has opened the eyes of millions of fans and citizens to the shared struggle for global equality and justice. I am grateful to Bono for his foreword to the book, for his gifted leadership in connecting worlds that would otherwise remain separate, and for reaping the energies and commitments of those newly forged connections. Bono's close associates, Jamie Drummond and Lucy Matthews, are incomparable stars in global civil society. They make miracles each day in pushing the agenda of global development to the forefront of often indifferent and unaware global leaders. Other miracle workers in promoting global justice who have generously helped me in my own activities include world-class philanthropist and financier George Soros and public health pioneers Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Bruce Walker. It is a cliche to say that this book would not have been possible but for. . . and sometimes such cliches are all too true. Margarethe Laurenzi, skilled writer and editorial assistant from the very start of this project, provided incomparable support, expert suggestions, and editorial feedback that kept us on track and on time. Gordon McCord is an invaluable special assistant regarding all aspects of my work at the Earth Institute and the UN Millennium Project, including detailed work on all parts of this book. Gordon is also without doubt an upcoming global leader of his generation in the challenges of sustainable development. Winthrop Ruml joined the team from Harvard in mid-2004 and has been a key member of the project since arriving at the Earth Institute. Martha Synnott managed my office during the two decades of the events described in this book, until 2003. Ji Mi Choi offered invaluable ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII help the following year, and now Heidi Kleedtke manages the controlled chaos that permits me to combine the obligations at the UN, the Earth Institute, and far-flung projects and programs throughout the world. Several colleagues and friends read the manuscript with great care and creativity, heading off mistakes, misunderstandings, or problematic gaps. I especially thank Diane Asadorian, Nirupam Bajpai, David Lipton, Will Masters, Staci Warden, Wing Woo, and Jeannie Woo for their generous time and thoughtful suggestions. I also thank Bob Edgar and his colleagues at the National Council of Churches USA for answering questions on the Christian tradition's commitment to reducing global poverty. Andrew Wylie, literary agent nonpareil, helped me to conceive of this book?its structure and logic as a way to broaden the world's understanding of our generation's opportunity to end extreme poverty. Scott Moyers, my editor at The Penguin Press, provided the steady, clear, professional guidance and support to see the project through to fruition, including the enormous skilled teamwork at Penguin Press to make such a masterful production effort. I'm grateful to both.NULL.NULL
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| Tan 339.46 Sac e | PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 3 |
| Penerbit | New York The Penguin Press., 2005 |
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| Subjek | Economic policy economic conditions Poverty Developing countries Economic assistance |
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