The idealist
by Nina Munk · first published 2013
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A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty. As Secretary General of the United Nations and author of Fools Rush In Sachs argues that extreme poverty is a solvable problem, drawing on success stories from his daring five-year Millennium Villages Project experiment in Africa to demonstrate how specific initiatives can enable profound positive changes.
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…Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Duflo is at MIT and is all about trials to figure out what works with aid. Read 'The Bottom Billion' by Paul Collier who is a development economist at Oxford. Read 'The Idealist' by Nina Munk which is about how we can say that Geoffrey Sach's millennium village project has failed. Read 'Africa Rising' by Vijay Mahajan about how many countries in Africa are actually been doing…
on “Why I stopped being a voluntourist ” ↗…of Geoffrey Sachs and Bono. There is a great book written by Nina Munk about Sachs, if only Gates could try and change his mind and look at it a little differently. http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Idealist-A-Cautionary-Ta...
on “Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates” ↗