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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780767929424)
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xNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg - Forbes - The Spectator
Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs--celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty-- launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about ending poverty. For six years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his trips to Africa, listened in on conversations with heads-of-state and humanitarian organizations, and immersed herself in the lives of people in two remote African villages. Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs's formula for ending global poverty. The Idealist is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.
Author: Nina Munk
ISBN-10: 076792942X
ISBN-13: 9780767929424
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.17w x 0.58d
Bloomberg - Forbes - The Spectator
Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs--celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty-- launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about ending poverty. For six years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his trips to Africa, listened in on conversations with heads-of-state and humanitarian organizations, and immersed herself in the lives of people in two remote African villages. Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs's formula for ending global poverty. The Idealist is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.
Author: Nina Munk
ISBN-10: 076792942X
ISBN-13: 9780767929424
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.17w x 0.58d
By Nina Munk
xNina Munk, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is a journalist and the author of Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner. She was previously a senior writer at Fortune, and before that a senior editor at Forbes. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Fortune, and the New York Times. She lives in New York.
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