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Titre du livre : The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime
Auteur : Jeffrey Sachs
ISBN-10 : 0141018666
Date de sortie : 2011-11-24
Catégorie : Business & Investing
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Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime fiche de lecture - 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.Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the "ladder of economic development" so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, which he explains in great detail in The End of Poverty. Though his plan certainly requires the help of rich nations, the financial assistance Sachs calls for is surprisingly modest--more than is now provided, but within the bounds of what has been promised in the past. For the U.S., for instance, it would mean raising foreign aid from just 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. Sachs does not view such help as a handout but rather an investment in global economic growth that will add to the security of all nations. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves.
Despite some crushing statistics, The End of Poverty is a hopeful book. Based on a tremendous amount of data and his own experiences working as an economic advisor to the UN and several individual nations, Sachs makes a strong moral, economic, and political case for why countries and individuals should battle poverty with the same commitment and focus normally reserved for waging war. This important book not only makes the end of poverty seem realistic, but in the best interest of everyone on the planet, rich and poor alike. --Shawn CarkonenJeffrey 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.Rang parmi les ventes Amazon: #26275 dans eBooksPublié le: 2011-11-24Sorti le: 2011-11-24Format: Ebook KindleDimensions: 1.01 livres Présentation de l'éditeurJeffrey 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.Amazon.comCelebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the "ladder of economic development" so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, which he explains in great detail in The End of Poverty. Though his plan certainly requires the help of rich nations, the financial assistance Sachs calls for is surprisingly modest--more than is now provided, but within the bounds of what has been promised in the past. For the U.S., for instance, it would mean raising foreign aid from just 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. Sachs does not view such help as a handout but rather an investment in global economic growth that will add to the security of all nations. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves. Despite some crushing statistics, The End of Poverty is a hopeful book. Based on a tremendous amount of data and his own experiences working as an economic advisor to the UN and several individual nations, Sachs makes a strong moral, economic, and political case for why countries and individuals should battle poverty with the same commitment and focus normally reserved for waging war. This important book not only makes the end of poverty seem realistic, but in the best interest of everyone on the planet, rich and poor alike. --Shawn CarkonenExtraitThe path from poverty to development has come incredibly fast in the span of human history. Two hundred years ago, the idea that we could potentially achieve the end of poverty would have been unimaginable. Just about everybody was poor with the exception of a very small minority of royals and landed gentry. Life was as difficult in much of Europe as it was in India or China. With very few exceptions, your great-great-grandparents were poor and most likely living on the farm. One leading economic historian, Angus Maddison, puts the average income per person in Western Europe in 1820 at around 90 percent of the average income of sub-Saharan Africa today. Life expectancy in Western Europe and Japan as of 1800 was probably about forty years.There was little sense a few centuries ago of vast divides in wealth and poverty around the world. China, India, Europe, and Japan all had similar income levels at the time of European discoveries of the sea routes to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Marco Polo, of course, marveled at the sumptuous wonders of China, not at its poverty. Cortés and his conquistadores expressed astonishment at the riches of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs. The early Portuguese explorers in Africa were impressed with the well-ordered towns in West Africa.Until the mid-1700s, the world was remarkably poor by any of today’s standards. Life expectancy was extremely low; children died in vast numbers in the now rich countries as well as the poor countries. Disease and epidemics, not just the black death of Europe, but many waves of disease, from smallpox and measles to other epidemics, regularly washed through society and killed mass numbers of people. Episodes of hunger and extreme weather and climate fluctuations sent societies crashing. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire, for Arnold Toynbee, was much like the rise and decline of all other civilizations before and since. Economic history had long been one of ups and downs, growth followed by decline, rather than sustained economic progress.The Novelty of Modern Economic GrowthIf we are to understand why vast gaps between rich and poor exist today, we need therefore to understand a very recent period of human history during which these vast gaps opened. The past two centuries, since around 1800, constitute a unique era in economic history, a period that the great economic historian Simon Kuznets famously termed the period of Modern Economic Growth, or MEG for short. Before the era of MEG, indeed for thousands of years, there had been virtually no sustained economic growth in the world and only gradual increases in the human population…;
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2 internautes sur 2 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.Un excellent livre sur le développementPar KURT MartinJ'ai un ami voyageur qui a fait un tour du monde de 5 ans pour mieux découvrir le monde et les enjeux de développement. Lorsqu'il m'a dit que ce livre (qui parle des enjeux de développement économique) était un de meilleurs qu'il n'a jamais lu, j'ai acheté ce livre, bien m'en a fait.Parlons de l'auteur d'abord. Classé à deux reprises comme étant l'un des 100 hommes les plus influents du monde par le célèbre magazine Times, Jeffrey Sachs a entre autres conseillé la Bolivie durant les années 1980 sur la stratégie à mettre en place pour lutter contre l'hyper inflation. Au début des années 1990, il a également conseillé le gouvernement Polonais sur la stratégie à mettre en œuvre pour assurer la transition du système communiste vers un système de livre échange. Voila pour le personnage.Parlons du livre maintenant. Enormément de gens ont des idées reçues sur le développement dans le monde. Beaucoup de gens pensent que si certains pays sont pauvres, c'est que leurs habitants sont paresseux ou corrompus. Beaucoup d'autres pensent qu'il y a trop de pauvres pour être tous aidés.C'est pourtant une grosse erreur. Dans son livre, Jeffrey D Sachs fait tomber un énorme nombre de mythes. J'ai notamment découvert que:- Si 1 milliard d'humains vivent avec moins de 1$, c'est car ils sont victimes de qu'il appelle la trappe à pauvreté. Lorsque les gens sont tellement pauvres qu'ils parviennent à peine à se nourrir, ils ne peuvent pas épargner le moindre centime pour l'avenir. A la moindre pénurie sévère de nourriture, ces personnes tomberont rapidement malade - voire pire - ne pourront avoir accès aux soins et seront encore moins productifs au champ, accentuant encore un peu plus la trappe à pauvreté.Sortir de la trappe à pauvreté est impossible par soi même, mais il suffit de très peu d'aide extérieure pour aider ces personnes à en sortir. Dans un village de 1000 habitants très pauvre d'Afrique (Kenya de mémoire), Sachs estime à 70 dollars pendant 5 ans les sommes nécessaires à investir dans les équipements de base (construction d'un puits, pompe à eau, construction d'un dispensaire, recrutement d'un médecin et d'une infirmière et médicaments de base, 1 véhicule motorisé pour le village, accès aux télécommunications et au microcrédit) pour sortir le village de la trappe à pauvreté.Bref, il suffit de 350 000 dollars (environ 250 000 euros) seulement pour sortir durablement un village de la pauvreté et enclencher le cercle vertueux du développement. Si les gens sont plus riches, ils peuvent épargner un peu d'argent, acheter des engrais, produire plus de nourriture, épargner encore plus, payer les frais d'école de leurs enfants et ainsi de suite... Utopique? Fournir 70 dollars par an (durant 5 ans) pour aider la totalité des 1 milliards d'humains vivant en situation d'extreme pauvreté à sortir de ce cercle vicieux couterait aux pays riches 70 milliards de dollars seulement. C'est 10 fois moins que le seul budget militaire des Etats-Unis...Partant de ce constat (oui la fin de la pauvreté est possible pour un coût extrêmement modique), Jeffrey Sachs explique dans son livre quelles sont les nombreuses causes du sous-développement (causes géographiques, climatiques, politiques...) et donne une méthode et une stratégie concrète sur comment mettre fin à l'extrême pauvreté dans le mondePragmatique, concret, optimiste, ce livre est un excellent ouvrage (la preuve: Bono a accepté de le préfacer). Loin des clichés sur les pays en développement véhiculé par les médias de masse, ce livre vous aidera à mieux comprendre le monde contemporain et les grands enjeux de développement dans le monde. Bref, c'est un excellent ouvrage passionnant que je vous recommande
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