Publications & Datasets
Media
2008
"Climate Change: feed it and weep, or lead and reap", Sydney Morning Herald July 25, 2008
2007
"Climate Change and the Law," Scientific American, November 2007.
"Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa," Scientific American, October 2007
"Breaking the Poverty Trap," Scientific American, September, 2007
Letter to the Editor, The Economist, August 2007
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"Making Development Less Risky," Scientific American, August 2007
"The Promise of the Blue Revolution," Scientific American, July 2007.
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"What a Little Fertilizer Can Do" Time, July 26, 2007.
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"The Secretary-General: Indispensable for Sustainable Development," UN Chronicle, Issue 1, 2007.
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"Climate Change Refugees," Scientific American, June 2007.
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"How I'd fix the World Bank," Fortune, June 26, 2007.
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"Malaria Control Calls for Mass Distribution of Insecticidal Bednets," with Awash Teklehaimanot and Chris Curtis, The Lancet, June 21, 2007.
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"Enough Excuses, Canada," The Ottawa Citizen, June 13, 2007.
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"The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here," Scientific American, May 2007.
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"How the Rich World can Help Africa Help Itself," Financial Times, May 30, 2007.
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"Rapid Victories Against Extreme Poverty," Scientific American, April 2007.
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"Threats of War, Chances for Peace," Scientific American, March 2007.
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"A Climate For Change," TIME Magazine, March 8, 2007.
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"Take the guessing out of giving aid to Africa," Financial Times, March 1, 2007.
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"Moving Beyond Kyoto," Scientifc American, February 2007.
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"The Neglected Tropical Diseases," Scientifc American, January 2007.
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"The $10 Solution," TIME Magazine, January 4, 2007.
2006
"The Challenge of Sustainable Water ," Scientific American, December 2006.
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"How Aid Can Work," New York Review of Books (Letter), December 21, 2006.
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"Welfare States Beyond Ideology," Scientific American, November 2006.
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"Fiddling While the Planet Burns," Scientific American, October 2006.
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"Hitting the Target," with Guido Schmidt-Traub, Words into Action, IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, September 2006.
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"Lower Fertility: A Wise Investment," Scientific American, September 2006.
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"Does Conservation Matter to the Poor?," Nature Conservancy Magazine, Summer 2006.
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"Virtuous Circles and Fragile States," Scientific American, August 2006.
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"Ecology and Political Upheaval," Scientific American, July 2006.
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"It Only Takes a Village," with Nirupam Bajpai, India Today, July 2, 2006.
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"Pay for it Now, or Pay for it Later," The Globe and Mail, June 19, 2006.
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"75th Anniversary of AIDS Pandemic: 10 cents for every $100 Could Save Millions of Lives," ABC News Online, June 2, 2006.
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"Investments Toward Sustainable Development," with Walter V. Reid, Science, Vol. 312, May 19, 2006.
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"Aid Skeptics Thrive on Pessimism," Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2006.
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"Net Gains," The New York Times, April 29, 2006.
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"How to Help the Poor: Piecemeal Progress or Strategic Plans?," The Lancet, Vol. 367, No. 9519, April 22, 2006.
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"How the Fund can Regain and Sustain Global Legitimacy," The Financial Times, April 20, 2006.
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"Fighting Tropical Diseases," with Peter Hotez, Science, Vol. 311, March 17, 2006.
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2005
"Why the U.S. Needs the U.N. More than Ever," Opening Argument, Vol. 1, Issue 2, December, 2005.
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"A Global Compact to End World Poverty: Jeffrey Sachs on Stabilisation, Transition and Weapons of Mass Salvation," interview by Brian Snowdon. Published in The World Economy, Vol. 6, No. 4, October-December, 2005.
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"It is Time for Fine Words to Give Way to Meaningful Action," Financial Times, December 27, 2005.
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"Response to Amir Attaran," with John McArthur & Guido Schmidt-Traub, PLoS Medicine, November 29, 2005.
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"The Time for Action," DACNews, September-October 2005.
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"The Cost of Making the Poor Pay," SciDev.Net, with Awash Teklehaimanot & Gordon McCord, October 31, 2005.
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"Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?" Scientific American, September 2005.
Reprinted in Cooperation South, United Nations Development Programme, 2005.
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"A Role for Everyone," Alliance Magazine, September 2005. Interview with Jeffrey Sachs.
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“2005 – The Year of Development,” Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2005, September 2005
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“What it will take to meet the Millennium Development Goals,” with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, Sustainable Development International, Fifteenth Edition, September 2005.
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"Ambition and action are as important as commitments," Financial Times, September 15, 2005.
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"Millennium Development Goals 'not doomed to fail',"SciDev.Net, with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, September 13, 2005.
"US leadership may be set to reach a consensus with the world's poorest," Financial Times, September 13, 2005.
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2005 U.N. World Summit Blog, Financial Times (online), September 12-16, 2005.
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"Why Aid Does Matter," BBC Online, September 11, 2005.
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"Beckoning for our Hands," The Guardian, September 7, 2005.
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"Look Into the Future," The Guardian (special supplement), September 3, 2005.
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"A European Development Fund for the MDGs," with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, Revamping Development Efforts: An Assessment of Development Policy in the EU, European Policy Centre Issue Paper 36, July 2005.
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"Hope and generosity can triumph over hate," Financial Times, July 11, 2005.
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"Spirit of London a Lesson for the World," Financial Times (online), July 4-8, 2005.
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"The year of development," G8 Summit 2005: Mapping the Challenges, Newsdesk/Agora, 6-8 July 2005.
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"How Africa lit up the world," Sunday Times Magazine, July 3, 2005.
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"The Year of Development," Global Future, Second Quarter, 2005.
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"Aiuti e poverta," Aspenia, n. 29, June 2005.
"Testimonials" with Goldman, Samuelson & Weitzman, Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 47, June 2005.
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"The End of Poverty," Optima, Vol. 51, No. 2, June 2005.
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"Four Easy Pieces," The New York Times, June 25, 2005.
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"Africa's Suffering is Bush's Shame," Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2005.
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"India in the Era of Economic Reforms: From Outsourcing to Innovation," with Nirupam Bajpai, Think On , May 2005.
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"The Development Challenge", Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005.
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"Augmenter l'aide publique avant qu'il ne soit trop tard," Jeune Afrique l'Intelligent - l'Etat de l'Afrique 2005, April 2005.
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"The end of the world as we know it," The Guardian, April 5, 2005.
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"It is time to free the World Bank," Financial Times, March 23, 2005.
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"The End of Poverty," Time, March 14, 2005.
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"What the President Doesn't Want to Hear," Esquire, February 2005.
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"India Can Achieve its Date with Destiny by 2015 with Planning," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Week, February 27, 2005.
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"An accountable approach to aid," Financial Times, January 24, 2005.
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"The Millennium Project: A plan to meet the Millennium Development Goals," Lancet, Vol. 365, January 22, 2005.
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"A Practical Plan to End Poverty," Washington Post, January 17, 2005.
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"The Class System of Catastrophe," Time, January 10, 2005.
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2004
“We Can End World Hunger: Here’s How,” with Pedro Sanchez, World Ark, November/ December 2004.
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"Book Review: Solving Global Crises: Economists Alone are not Enough," Lancet, Vol. 364, December 11, 2004.
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"How to Halve World Poverty," The Economist -- The World in 2005, November 2004.
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"Time for Chile's Next Step in Economic Development," with Gordon C. McCord, Business Chile, November 12, 2004.
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"If the US Won't, Germany Must," Internationale Politik, No. 4, 2004.
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"Ending World Hunger," Poder Magazine, October 2004.
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"Three Years and Three Lessons since 9/11," Facts, September 2004.
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"Mother of All Headaches," Review of The End of Oil and Energy at the Crossroads. OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2004.
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"La lección china a Brasil," Vanguardia Dossier, July-September 2004.
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"Building on the Commonwealth Action Plan," Commonwealth Finance MInisters Report 2004, September 28, 2004.
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"Seeking a Global Solution: The Copenhagen Consensus neglects the need to tackle climate change," Nature, August 12, 2004.
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"Une révolution verte pour l'Afrique," with Pedro Sanchez, Le Monde, August 10, 2004.
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"How to Run the IMF," Foreign Policy, July-August 2004.
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"Myanmar: sanctions won't work," Financial Times, July 28, 2004.
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"The Best Countries in the World," Newsweek, July 26, 2004.
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"The G8 must fund the war against poverty," Financial Times, June 7, 2004.
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"A Simple Plan to Save the World," Esquire, May 2004.
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"Doing the sums on Africa," The Economist, May 20, 2004.
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"Third World Disease," Ob.Gyn. News May 1, 2004.
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"Sustainable Development," Science, April 30 2004.
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"Priorities for meeting the Millennium Development Goals," with John McArthur, Global Future Magazine, First Quarter 2004.
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"From His First Day in Office, Bush was Ousting Aristide," Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2004.
"Don't fall for Washington's spin on Haiti," Financial Times, March 1, 2004
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"How Bush ruined a decade’s good work," The Banker, February 3, 2004.
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“Touching the Rural Landscape,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, January 28, 2004.
“The Unfinished Agenda,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, January 28, 2004.
“India in the era of economic reforms,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, January 28 2004
"Welcome to the Asian Century," Fortune Magazine, January 12, 2004
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2003
"Who will lead the war on want?" Global Agenda 2003 - Magazine of the World Forum Economic Annual Meeting 2003.
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"Getting Through the Bottleneck," Our Planet: The Magazine of the UNEP, Vol. 13 No 4. (2003 Issue: Globalization, Poverty, Trade, and the Environment)
"The Strategic Significance of Global Inequality," (reprint) Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Issue 9, 2003.
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"Minding the Gaps," Newsweek International Asia, October-December, 2003.
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“New Challenges 1: The Millennium Development Goals - How Far We Have Come,” Development Cooperation Ireland Annual Report 2003.
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"America's disastrous energy plan,"Financial Times, December 23, 2003
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"The New Urban Planning," Development Outreach, The World Bank Institute, November 2003.
"No Place for Piety," The New Scientist, November 8, 2003
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"Mobilization of Domestic and Donor Resources for Health," World Bank Viewpoint, October 2003.
"Call It Our Bolivian Policy of Not-So-Benign Neglect," Washington Post, October 26, 2003
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"The World must not let America set its agenda," Financial Times, October 15, 2003
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"Spring Broke: Trade Negotiations Gone Wild," The New Republic, September 22, 2003.
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"A Better Use for our $87 Billion," Boston Globe, September 13, 2003.
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"Bush's billions will prolong Iraq's woes," Financial Times,September 10, 2003
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"World needs Japan in fight against diseases," with Joanne Carter, The Asahi Shimbun, August 26, 2003.
"The real target of the war in Iraq was Saudi Arabia," Financial Times, August 13, 2003.
"A Miserly Response to a Global Emergency," Financial Times, July 17, 2003.
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"AIDS Funds Fall Short," with Paul Zeitz, Boston Globe, July 11, 2003.
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"Well-Directed Development Aid can Unlock Forces of Economic Growth," with Philip Lane, The Irish Times, July 10, 2003.
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"If We Cared to, We Could Defeat World Poverty," with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2003.
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" A Rich Nation, a Poor Continent," The New York Times, July 9, 2003.
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"Institutions Matter, but not for Everything," IMF Finance and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, June 2003.
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"American intentions are tainted by Iraq's oil" Financial Times, May 22, 2003.
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"An economic 'menu of pain'," with Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston Globe, May 19, 2003
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"A world for which Bush cares little," Financial Times, April 9, 2003.
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"Smart Money: What Military Power Can't Do," The New Republic, March 3, 2003.
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"America should not fight AIDS on its own," Financial Times, February 4, 2003.
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"Fighting Poverty, Fighting AIDS" Newsweek, January 6, 2003.
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2002
"Weapons of Mass Salvation," The Economist, October 26, 2002.
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"How to save the world in Johannesburg," Financial Times, August 13, 2002
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"Rapid Population Growth Saps Development" Science. July 19, 2002.
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"Investing in Health for Economic Development: Time for US Action." Global HealthLink. March-April 2002.
"Improving the Health of the Global Poor." Science. March 15, 2002.
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"AIDS and Africa: Where is the U.S.?" with Sonia Ehrlich Sachs. Boston Globe. February 4, 2002.
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"Duhalde’s Wrong Turn," Financial Times, January 11, 2002
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2001
"What's good for the poor is good for America," The Economist. July 12, 2001
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"A New Global Commitment to Disease Control in Africa," Nature Medicine, Vol. 7 No. 5, May 2001.
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"The Benefits of a Weaker Yen". Financial Times. April 18, 2001. CIDNEWS
"A Global Fund for the Fight Against AIDS". Washington Post. April 7, 2001.
"The Geography of Poverty and Wealth," with Andrew D. Mellinger and John L. Gallup. Scientific American. March 2001.
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"To Climb a Steep Gradient Firmly," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, Calcutta, and the Net edition, February 27, 2001.
"Meeting Economic Growth Agenda" with Nirupam Bajpai. Hindu Business Line. February 20, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Budget and the Development Decade" with Nirupam Bajpai. Hindu Business Journal. February 19, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Miles to Go" with Nirupam Bajpai. India Today. February 19, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Fighting AIDS is a Bargain and a Moral One at That". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. February 14, 2001.
"The 2001-02 Budget" with Nirupam Bajpai. The Hindu. February 13, 2001.
"Unproductive Spending," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 13, 2001.
"AIDS, Drugs, and Africa". Financial Times. February 12, 2001. CIDNEWS
"The Best Possible Investment in Africa". New York Times. February 10, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Face to Face with Reform", with Nirupam Bajpai. The Telegraph (India). February 2, 2001.CIDNEWS
Subtract the Divide; with Geoffrey Kirkman. World Link. January 25, 2001. CIDNEWS
2000
"No Reform In A Hurry," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, November 20, 2000.
"Reforms and Growth Prospects," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, November 14, 2000.
"The Charade of Debt Sustainability," Financial Times, Sept. 26, 2000
"Great Barrier Reefs," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, July 17, 2000.
"Foreign Helping Hand," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, July 4, 2000.
"A New Map of the World," The Economist, June 24 2000. (Reprinted in Imagining Tomorrow: Rethinking the Global Challenge. K. Sharma, ed. UN Millenium Assembly, August 2000).
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"Give Poor Nigeria a Chance" Financial Times, June 15, 2000. CIDNEWS
"Glorifying Mediocrity" The International Economy. May/June 2000, p14.
"Zones and Phones," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, May 22, 2000.
"Development and Goal Setting II," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, May 11, 2000.
"Development and Goal Setting I," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, May 10, 2000.
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"Decade of Development," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, May 8, 2000.
"A Blueprint for IMF Reform," with Allan Meltzer, The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2000, The Asian Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2000, and The Wall Street Journal Europe, March 9, 2000.
"Some Export Advice," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 28, 2000.
"Lowering Revenue Deficit, Subsidies Hold Key to Fiscal Consolidation," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Rediff Pre-Budget Special, February 24, 2000.
"Time for Bold Action," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, February 22 and 23, 2000.
"Budget: Time to Take Harsh Measures," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, Invited op-ed, February 21, 2000.
"Long-term Perspectives on Economic Development in the Middle East," January 2000.
"Reforms in the States," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, January 24 - 26, 2000.
"Fish Out of Water," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 18, 2000.
"Power to Bind and Loose," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, January 3, 2000.
1999
"State-level Reforms in India," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Times of India, December 27, 1999.
"First Among States," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 27, 1999.
"Leading the Pack," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 20, 1999.
"Transfer ticket," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 13, 1999.
"In a State of Deficit," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 6, 1999.
"The IMF's New Leader," Financial Times, November 18, 1999.
"Life After Communism," Wall Street Journal, November 17, 1999
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"Helping the World's Poorest" Economist, August 1999.
"A Millennial Gift to Developing Nations," New York Times, June 6, 1999.
"Investing in the World Health Organization," with Barry Bloom, David Bloom, and Joel Cohen, in Science, Vol. 284, 7 May 1999.
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"A Cure for Indifference," with Michael Kremer, Financial Times, May 5, 1999.
"India - Fiscal Restraint is the Need of the Hour," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 11, 1999.
"A New Social Contract Needed for Rural India," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 10, 1999.
"India's Failure on the Policy Front," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 9, 1999.
"Strengthening India's Strategy," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 8, 1999.
(previously working paper "Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth," with Nirupam Bajpai, HIID Development Discussion Paper no. 641, July 1998.) [Download paper as PDF file]
"Self-inflicted Wounds," Financial Times, January 22, 1999
1998
"Money Order," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 21, 1998.
"India - Country Roads," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 14, 1998.
"Sales Across the Seas," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 7, 1998.
"Competition Success," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 2, 1998.
"The Real Causes of Famine: A Nobel laureate blames authoritarian rulers," Time, October 26, 1998.
"Next Stop: Brazil," with Steven Radelet, New York Times, October 14, 1998.
"Es Wird Weh Tun," interview with Der Spiegel, October 5, 1998
"Global Capitalism: Making it Work," Economist, September 12, 1998.
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"Strategy for Growth," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, September 9-11, 1998.
"Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth," in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXIII, No. 29 & 30, Mumbai, July 18, 1998, with Nirupam Bajpai.
(previously working paper "Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth," with Nirupam Bajpai, HIID Development Discussion Paper no. 641, July 1998.) [Download paper as PDF file]
"Toward a New Strategy for Asian Recovery," Singapore Straits-Times, July 26, 1998.
"The IMF and the Asian Flu," The American Prospect, March/April 1998
1997
"The IMF: A Power unto Itself," Financial Times, December 11, 1997
"International Monetary Failure? The IMF's prescriptions might actually make Asia's financial turmoil worse," Time, December 8, 1997.
"The Wrong Medicine for Asia," The New York Times, November 3, 1997
"POINT: Jeffrey Sachs says Asia's miracle is still alive," Time, September 29, 1997.
"Growing Hot and Cold," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, August 4, 1997.
"Recipe for Success," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, July 7, 1997.
"Exchange rate tectonics," Worldlink, May/June 1997.
"Model that Couldn't," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, June 23, 1997.
"The Limits of Convergence - Nature, nurture and growth," Economist, June 14, 1997.
"Help Congo Now," with Robert Rotberg, New York Times, May 29, 1997.
"The Need for Tax Reform," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Rediff Special, March 5, 1997.
"Take a Fresh Look at Foreign Aid," International Herald Tribune, February 1997.
"Down to Brass Tax" with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 28, 1997.
"When Foreign Aid Makes a Difference," The New York Times, February 3, 1997.
1996
"On the tigers' trail, - Sachs on Competitiveness," Worldlink, November/December 1996.
"Growth in Africa: It can be done," Economist, June 29-15, 1996.
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"It Could Have Been So Much Better: Reflections on Russian Economic Reform," The Moscow Times Russia Review, vol. 3, no. 90, May 6, 1996.
"Lessons from Asia," Central European Economic Review, vol 4, no. 3, April 1996.
1995
"Keep the Baby in the Bath Water," Worldlink, Sept./Oct. 1995.
"Wanted: Some Brand New Thinking," Millennium, October 1995.
"A common-sense approach will put SA's economic miracle within reach," The Business Times, Sunday, Oct. 1, 1995 (South Africa).
"The Real Story," with Aaron Tornell and Andres Velasco, International Economy, March/April 1995.
"Post-Communist Parties and the Politics of Entitlements," Transition, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1995.
"Why did we snub Russia and air Mexico?", The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 1995.
"Crash of Nations," The New Republic, February 6, 1995.
1994
"The Prospects for Reform in Russia," Canadian Business Review, Autumn 1994.
"A shocking answer to inflation," Independent (London), October 11, 1993.
"Beyond Bretton Woods: A new blueprint," The Economist, October 1, 1994.
"What the IMF should advise Ukraine," Financial Times, July 29, 1994.
"IMF, Reform Thyself," Wall Street Journal, July 21, 1994
"Estonia has set good currency example," Financial Times, July 15, 1994.
"Inflation, Debt, and Liquidity," with Kevin McDonald, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1994.
"Toward Glasnost in the IMF," in Challenge, May/June 1994.
"Buying Time for Democracy," European Brief, April/May 1994.
"Russia: IMF gives too little, too late," Financial Times, March 31, 1994
"Betrayal," The New Republic, January 31, 1994.
1993
"Open trade vital to former communists," The Kikkei Weekly, October 18, 1993.
"Moscow's Monetary Meltdown," The New Republic, August 23 & 30, 1993.
"La Russie va s'en sortir," interview in Capital (France), No. 22, July 1993.
"Remove roadblock to Russian reforms," with Stanley Fischer, Financial Times, July 6, 1993.
"Hey, Pundits, What About Yeltsin?" New York Times, April 30, 1993.
"The Road to the Market," Washington Post, March 28, 1993.
"Russian Sachs Appeal," The International Economy, January/February 1993.
"Strengthening Western Support for Russia," in International Economic Insights, Volume IV Number I, January/February 1993.
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1992
Interview in Comparative Economic and Social Systems, 4, 1992.
"Western Financial Assistance to Support Russia's Reforms," Keizai Seminar Special issue 1992.
Monthly articles for Yomiuri Shimbun, 1992-93.
Interview in Politique Internationale, no. 57, Fall 1992.
"Home Alone 2," The New Republic, December 21, 1992.
"The Leadership Deficit," Time, Vol. 140, No. 19, November 9, 1992.
"Crowning the Estonian Kroon" with Ardo Hansson, in Transition, Volume 3, Number 9. October 1992.
"Russia on the Brink" with David Lipton, Financial Times, Oct. 16, 1992.
Interview in Prism, "The Russian Republic: Issues and Opportunities," Third Quarter 1992.
"Currency Reform in Slovenia: The Tolar Standing Tall" with Boris Pleskovic, in Transition, Volume 3, Number 8, September 1992.
"Russia on the Ropes," Washington Post, Sept. 27, 1992.
Interview in Kauppalehti Optio (Finland), September 10, 1992.
"Aftershocks: Reflecting on Two Years of 'Shock Therapy' in Poland," interview in Harvard International Review, Spring 1992.
"Privatization in Poland: An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs," interview in Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, Vol. XV, No. 2, Spring 1992.
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"Building a Market Economy in Poland," Scientific American, March 1992.
"Helping Russia," The Economist, December 21, 1991-January 3, 1992.
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1991
"Soviet Reforms: Cold Turkey," World Link, No. 2/1991.
"Crossing the Valley of Tears in East European Reform," Challenge, September October 1991.
"Economic Assistance to the Soviet Union at the G-7 Summit," Nihon Keizai, July 1991.
"Sachs on Poland," The Economist, January 19, 1991.
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1990
"Interview: 'Charting Poland's Economic Rebirth'," in Challenge, January February 1990.
"Jeffrey Sachs: My Plan for Poland," in The International Economy, December 1989/January 1990, Volune III, Number 6.
"Eastern Europe's Economies - What is to be done?" in The Economist, January 13, 1990.
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1989
"Lack of Solidarity," The New Republic, August 7 & 14, 1989.
1988
"Baker's Bank Bailout," The New Republic, November 14, 1988.
"Debt Management: A Hard Look at Realities," in Dividend, The Magazine of the School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, June, 1988, pp. 16-19.
"Interview: 'The Debt Crisis at a Turning Point'," in Challenge, May/June, 1988, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 17-26.
1987
"A Debt Writedown Would Send Bank Stocks Up," in The International Economy, October/November, 1987, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 96-97.
1986
"Don't Go for the Gold," The New Republic, August 11 & 12, 1986.
1985
"How to Save the Third World," The New Republic, October 28, 1985.
"Israel's Economic Disaster," The New Republic, July 8, 1985.
"Future Fiscal Shock," The New Republic, March 18, 1985.
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