Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet“Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review “Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United States In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity. Through crystalline examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts the cascade of crises that awaits this crowded planet-and presents a program of sustainable development and international cooperation that will correct this dangerous course. Few luminaries anywhere on the planet are as schooled in this daunting subject as Sachs, and this is the vital product of his experience and wisdom. |
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... countries with exceptional growth , a group of middle- income countries with rapid growth somewhat less than the ... develop- ment of per capita income in different parts of the world . Suppose that all parts of the world join the ...
... countries with exceptional growth , a group of middle- income countries with rapid growth somewhat less than the ... develop- ment of per capita income in different parts of the world . Suppose that all parts of the world join the ...
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... Developing countries 1,000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Year Source : Calculated using data ... countries . in Figure 2.2 ( a ) , where we show the world average , the U.S. curve , and the path for today's developing ...
... Developing countries 1,000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Year Source : Calculated using data ... countries . in Figure 2.2 ( a ) , where we show the world average , the U.S. curve , and the path for today's developing ...
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... Developing countries United States Income ( trilions of PPP - adjusted constant 2005 dollars ) 150 100 ཧྭ ཛྱཱ ༞ ༅ ྨ ཤྩ ༞ ཎྜ ༞ 400 250 200 50 0 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 Source : Calculated using data from World Bank ( 2007 ) 2023 ...
... Developing countries United States Income ( trilions of PPP - adjusted constant 2005 dollars ) 150 100 ཧྭ ཛྱཱ ༞ ༅ ྨ ཤྩ ༞ ཎྜ ༞ 400 250 200 50 0 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 Source : Calculated using data from World Bank ( 2007 ) 2023 ...
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... developing world . The rising rates of urbanization can have countless benefits for the world , including the low - income countries ... development . In the worst cases , rural populations migrate into urban areas not because of rising farm ...
... developing world . The rising rates of urbanization can have countless benefits for the world , including the low - income countries ... development . In the worst cases , rural populations migrate into urban areas not because of rising farm ...
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... develop and adopt on a global scale , and in a short period of time , the ... countries , in order to combine economic prosperity with environmental ... development of high - S technologies . Many important technologies will have a huge ...
... develop and adopt on a global scale , and in a short period of time , the ... countries , in order to combine economic prosperity with environmental ... development of high - S technologies . Many important technologies will have a huge ...
Contents
The Anthropocene | 57 |
Global Solutions to Climate Change | 83 |
Securing Our Water Needs ྡྲ | 115 |
A Home for All Species | 139 |
Global Population Dynamics | 159 |
The Strategy of Economic Development | 205 |
Ending Poverty Traps | 227 |
Economic Security in a Changing World | 255 |
Rethinking Foreign Policy | 271 |
Achieving Global Goals | 291 |
The Power of One | 313 |
Acknowledgments | 341 |
List of Acronyms | 347 |
References | 361 |
Index | 371 |
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