This book is a must for people serious about “making a difference” on this planet during their lifetime.

Written by a man with incredible credentials, Jeffrey Sachs is Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General Kofi Anna and currently the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. At 28 years old he was a “star” economics professor with Harvard and unlike many of his academic contemporaries, Sachs has worked on real life economically problems around the world in places such as Poland, Bolivia, Africa, Russia, China, and India.

In the “End of Poverty” Sachs explains what he has witnessed in all parts of the world. His ability to convincingly weave statistics, with history, and real life experiences makes this book full of hearty information while riveting for the content and style.

In 18 masterfully crafted chapters, Sach’s paints a realistic picture of where the planet is today, how we got here, and offers a plausible and realizable action plan how our generation can mobilize the resources and initiatives to eliminate extreme poverty over the next twenty years.

In Chapter 1, Global Family Portrait, he demonstrates the extreme wealth profile of the plant. In chapter 2, he moves to explain in common language Why Some Nations Fail to Thrive and brings some of us back to Economics 101 to explain and share relevant statistics on savings, trade, technology, resources, and the poverty trap.

I thoroughly enjoyed chapters 3-9 as Sachs goes into his personal experiences and draws relevant and insightful distinctions from his roles as an advisor and consultant helping Bolivia with hyperinflation, Poland’s return to Europe, Russia’s struggles with a market economy, China reawakening, and India market reforms.

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