"The end of Poverty"
Jeffrey Sach (2005)
The end of poverty refers to the achievement of two goals:
- to end the plight of one sixt of humanity that lives in extreme poverty and struggles daily for survival
- to ensure that all of the world's poor, including those in moderate poverty, have a chance to climb the ladder
of development
posted by Erny Murniasih @ 3:34 PM
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well, Sach's thesis needs more than just the generosity of the developed countries. In Marxist thinking, the ruling class will never give their special rights freely without the struggle of the working class. In this case, the developed countries will never just 'transfer' their wealth through 'development aid' without hoping something in return. There's no free lunch, they say. That is, the struggle of the developing countries is crucial to better cooperate and gain more influence through tighter cooperation between them. The Latin American countries project of ABDA is a thesis of how developing countries should act and free themselves from dependency upon the developed countries.
However, Sach's book in a way tells us that to end poverty in fact doesn't need a huge amount of resources and can be done in a relatively short period of time.
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