Assignment

Sachs and Easterly

Sachs outlines a program for alleviating global poverty and stimulating development which relies on aid from the rich countries of the west.

Jeffrey Sachs stressed that practical solutions exist, insisting that the cost of reducing extreme poverty is "utterly affordable." However, in the case of Western aid to African countries, he explained that many U.S. citizens overestimate of 30 to 50 times the amount of aid to poor countries spent by the U.S. government (Sachs, 2006). "Of the estimated $ 4 billion spent by the United States to Africa to $ 100, less than a penny actually reaches the Africans," he added. Last June, during a press conference at the UN, Jeffrey Sachs has estimated that the U.S. does not give enough to help Africa and the coup of being "accomplices" of the death of millions of people on the African continent. He recalled that the U.S. spends only 0.16% of their GDP to official development assistance, barely more than Italy, which contributes 0.15%. Sachs provides in detail his vision for the gallery to eliminate global poverty, his opinion on the anti-globalization movement as a place to fight poverty in the world at the forefront of their priorities. It paints a very accurate position and balance about this movement and its activities. On the one hand recognizes with great appreciation the load involved in the ethical and humanitarian premises on which the. He says that without the activities effectively in the length and breadth of the world, especially on the sidelines of important meetings and major international financial institutions like the World Bank or the World Trade Organization or the Group of Eight summit, many of the issues that concern the developing world, such as debt cancellation and AIDS, development, environment, what was for her to ascend to the top of the international agenda (Sachs, 2006). He says that despite the appeals against the encroachment of globalization and pro-poor of the world are important and the movement fail to diagnose the causes of global problems, especially when standing sharp and radical stance against free trade or foreign investment and transnational corporations. And demonstrates the prattle position anti-globalization movement of these issues through the statistics and figures that indicate high levels of foreign investment in developing countries raise the level of people's income and gross national product of the year. Add to that free trade and open economies, and over the last forty years, has demonstrated the ability to reduce levels of poverty in the world. In India and China, for example, has witnessed the economic openness that countries in the nineties and clear results in terms of reducing the number who are below the poverty million in the case of India, and three hundred million in the case of China (Crowley and Lichter, 2006). He says one of the errors committed by opponents of globalization is to transfer the responsibility of organizing the international economy to transnational corporations and the border of being viewed by the actual limits of the economic game in the ...