The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

著者 : Jeffrey D.Sachs

• Penguin Press HC, The (2005年3月15日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

He has been cited by "The New York Times Magazine" as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world's poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all.
Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are-and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, "The End of Poverty" is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world.
From "probably the most important economist in the world" ("The New York Times Magazine"), legendary for his work around the globe on economies in crisis, a landmark exploration of the roots of economic prosperity and the path out of extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens.

感想・レビュー・書評

[pu-booksさんの感想 · 2008年7月9日]

超良本！！　　　　　半端なくお勧めです。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　実際に途上国開発の現場に携わった、政府のアドバイザーたる地位を数々経験した人が綴る各国のサクセスストーリーと、現在を生きる私たちがすべきこと(今後の課題)。例が具体的に挙げられていて読んでいても面白いし、また、各種図、グラフを用いた根拠のある説明をしてくれるのでためになる。特に、初心者には本当に基礎から応用まで書かれているイメージなので、何かの教科書にもできるんじゃないか。そんな感じの本です。

[ピヨピヨさんの感想 · 2007年3月16日]

「世界で最も重要なエコノミスト」とも評されるジェフリー・サックスによる大著。500ページ以上あり、量・質ともにお腹いっぱいです。ミレニアム開発目標（MDGs）の主眼である「2025年までに地球上から極度の貧困をなくす」という目標をいかに達成するか、その手段、及び障害となっている問題や誤解について、著者の経験や膨大なデータを用いて説明がなされています。

経済学に疎い自分にはなかなか難しい内容もあったけれども、首尾一貫した政策提言にふれ、上記の目標達成が真実味を帯びてきます。解決策は整った、後はそれをどう実行していくか、というところがポイントになって来るのだと感じました。