Showing posts with label Jeffrey D. Sachs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey D. Sachs. Show all posts

Friday, 30 September 2016

From the CIA to the GFE (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, a lack of computers, large class sizes, and no electricity, many parts of the world are headed for massive instability, joblessness, and poverty. The twenty-first century will belong to countries that properly educate their young people to participate productively in the global economy.

Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Financing Health and Education for All (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

In 2015, around 5.9 million children under the age of five, almost all in developing countries, died from easily preventable or treatable causes. And up to 200 million young children and adolescents do not attend primary or secondary school, owing to poverty, including 110 million through the lower-secondary level, according to a recent estimate. In both cases, massive suffering could be ended with a modest amount of global funding

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/financing-universal-health-education-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2016-05

Thursday, 28 April 2016

New Politics for Clean Energy (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

The diplomats have done their job, concluding the Paris climate agreement in December. And political leaders gathered last week at the United Nations to sign the new accord. But implementation is surely the tough part. Governments need a new approach to an issue that is highly complex, long term, and global in scale.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/clean-energy-implementation-politics-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2016-04

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Ending the Syrian War (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

Syrian woman under umbrella.

Syria is currently the world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe and most dangerous geopolitical hotspot. The Syrian people are caught in a bloodbath, with more than 400,000 dead and ten million displaced.

Saturday, 18 July 2015

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Saying No to the Warmongers (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

The accord struck in Vienna to rein in Iran’s nuclear activities has warmongers fulminating. Citizens worldwide should support US President Barack Obama’s brave effort to outmaneuver them, taking heart from the fact that the signatories include not just the United States, but all five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/iran-deal-us-security-state-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2015-07