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JEFFREY Sachs is a renowned economist known for his work on economic development policies, sustainable development, and the fight to end poverty.
There is no economist in this country, and probably in the world, who hasn't read and been awed by his bestselling books, among them The End of Poverty (2005), The Price of Civilization (2011), A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018) and The Ages of Globalization (2020). He was twice named among Time magazine's 100 most influential world leaders, and is a university professor at Columbia University, that institution's highest academic rank. Before joining Columbia, Sachs spent more than 20 years as a professor at Harvard University. Many believe he would have won the Nobel Prize for economics long ago if not for his criticism of US foreign and economic policies.
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