The Guardian

Washington, March 7:

Jeffrey Sachs — a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general — argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025. In ‘The End of Poverty’, he says much will depend on the choices made by Americans, who are paying a far smaller share of their income in foreign aid than they promised three years ago, and only a 30th of the ‘nearly $500 billion the US will spend this year on the military’. “Currently, more than eight million people globally die each year because they are too poor to stay alive. Yet our generation, in the US and abroad, can choose to end extreme poverty by the year 2025,” he writes. Professor Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the head of the UN’s Millennium Project formulating anti-poverty goals.