That prompted a call by Jeffrey Sachs an advisor to UN Secretary-General António Guterres for the IMF board to back immediate action to make money available to save lives...
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Vol 56 No 20 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Yet MDG advocates led by United States economist Jeffrey Sachs galvanised international institutions and philanthropists to channel money into vaccines bed nets to protect people from malaria and better technology for farmers...
Observer Editor John Mulholland praised the economist Jeffrey Sachs’s ‘Millennium Village’ project in Ghana and talked to activist musician Bono about how the aid industry was putting itself out of business there...
Vol 52 No 11 |
- NIGERIA
- AFRICA
However a suggestion by UN development advisor Jeffrey Sachs that Nigeria should limit families to a maximum of three children has won little support...
Vol 50 No 6 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Aid lobbyists in Dar es Salaam such as economist Jeffrey Sachs and musician-activist Bob Geldof pointed out that the rich countries which at the 2005 Gleaneagles G-8 summit pledged another $30 bn...
The big idea of a development push in Africa to be part-financed by Western aid has been propagated by rock stars and given intellectual credibility by United States' economist Jeffrey Sachs...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 8 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
Invitations went out to the Irish rockstar Bono Senegalese singer and activist Youssou N'Dour and evangelical economist Jeffrey Sachs...
Out of politics for more than a decade he recently appeared on the development economics circuit alongside the well-known US economist Jeffrey Sachs...
Vol 46 No 19 |
- UNITED NATIONS
The accord was meant to synthesise the conclusions of a high-level panel which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had set up in 2003 to examine threats to peace and security with a detailed report by economist Jeffrey Sachs on the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of reducing global poverty by half by 2015...
Vol 46 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
The case for the big push - also made in Jeffrey Sachs's United Nations' task force report is that only a massive and sustained transfer of resources to poor countries can launch the economic growth they need...