Jeffrey Sachs - Poverty's Friend or Foe

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation. For more than 20 years he has been at the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting policies to help all parts of the world to benefit from expanding economic opportunities and wellbeing.

Corruption consumes more than a quarter of Africa's gross domestic product every year, about $148 billion, yet Jeffrey Sachs says that the thieving-tyrants-with-fly-swatters stereotype of African leaders is passé and continue on his crusade to End Poverty, "Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time" (note the new brand ). He went on to say, "Africa's governance is poor, because Africa is poor" yet his celebrated plan is the favored one by the UN and others trying to help feed Africa.

Why is Africa still poor? The answer to this is often lost in endless facts and statistics until Andrew Rice's article in the Nation. We know the problem but while the elusive answer is still being glossed over by Jeffrey Sachs, "We must recognize history, and understand the continent as it is, not as we wish it to be" (corrected Andrew Rice), it is not either or, it is a combination of all the problems and solutions. Only Africans can save Africa, by building competitive economies for African people.

Peter Hitchens Mail UK and Richard Behar Fast Company USA reported truly disturbing events of our time yet people continue in the feed Africa programs without addressing the reasons they are poor. The Jeffrey, Bill, Bob & Bono Show will only be glitter until we begin to join up the dots that can resolve the poverty issue. How can one continent be so out of step with humankind's march of progress? Please read Andrew Rice's article.