118 Quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

Development can really work everywhere. But most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Central Asia face obstacles.

The broader issue of the real role of the U.S., the foreign assistance aspect of that, who's going to pay for the security of a global economy?

As of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a kind of professional consensus arose in Washington. It was called a consensus for the world, but how many people really believed all of it is an open question. A consensus came, at least within Washington, about how countries should change from non-market economies to market economies.

A lot of the old apparatchiks came back in, and corruption really dramatically increased in '94/'95, particularly around Yeltsin's re-election in 1996, when the government used corrupt practices to give money to business, part of which was returned to the campaign coffers, and helped pay for Yeltsin's re-election.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

For many parts of the world, the chasm that has to be crossed to get from where they were, whether it's a dictatorship, economic collapse, financial crisis or all of the above, to the other side, that is a working market economy and a functioning democracy, is extraordinarily difficult and requires help.

It's time for other candidates to come forward that have experience in development.

I want the donors to think ahead, not just handle the immediate crisis,

The war on terror cannot ever be won if the war on poverty isn't won,