Read "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey D. Sachs

As soon as I finish my 3 other books, which are Death du Jour, by Kathy Reichs, Young Zaphod, by Douglas Adams, et Je veux vivre, par Jenny Downham, I am getting right on this book.

Feb. 16, 2009.

The economic model that explains the poverty trap, made a lot of things “i knew” crystallize into a single understanding of the complex economics involved in extreme poverty.

This has got to be defining challenge of our generation.

What is the greatest tragedy of our time?

“Fifteen thousand people dying needlessly every day from AIDS, TB, and malaria. This is Africa’s crisis. That it’s not on the nightly news, that we do not treat this as an emergency – that’s our crisis.”—Bono’s foreword.

This question spoke to me very strongly: “How are we using our unprecedented freedom from the age-old struggle for daily survival?”

This is an amazing book, because I started out so jaded and have ended so hopeful and have found so much more purpose and meaning in my life as the result.

We can end extreme poverty by 2025, and we have to do more to eliminate the extreme lack of fairness and equality that exists in the world today that dictates that 1/6 of the world suffer and die needless and wasteful deaths through no fault of their own. “When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority – whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional – rather than an accident of timing or geography.”

A must read.