<p>blurinka, you made my day, just by this statement: now I, too, have read Sachs, and think he's a moron.
i love it.</p>
<p>LOL, but he IS! I swear to god, I see him cited in all these New York Times articles about poverty and I'm like "stop, he doesn't know what he's talking about!"</p>
<p>Example - on page 199 of The End of Poverty, he writes something like "I began to suspect that all the death and disease were seriously hampering Africa's chances at economic growth." ....Really? 200 pages into your book, you've BEGUN to SUSPECT that dead people don't show up for work?</p>
<p>And another time he was advising Russia on how they can turn their economy around, and was "shocked" when he realized that the United States was not going to fork over as much money to help Russia out as they did for Poland. Really, Jeff Sachs? I mean...really? You didn't see why the US was willing to help out Poland, which would be a strategic blow to the USSR, which could eventually become a NATO member? You didn't understand why the US wouldn't want to give money to a country that, up until recently, was our BIGGEST ENEMY and HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?</p>
<p>Jesus Christ Almighty. lol.</p>
<p>I gotta join the I-hate-Jeffrey-Sachs bandwagon. Dude sucks.</p>