Jeffrey Sachs

(12 votes)   Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

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(8 votes)   If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

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(7 votes)   Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

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(7 votes)   The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

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(6 votes)   America's planned contribution to the global AIDS fund is around a sixth of what is needed in 2003, according to the fund itself.

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(6 votes)   We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

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(5 votes)   In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

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(11 votes)   We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

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(10 votes)   Devaluations are never easy.

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(10 votes)   Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

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(10 votes)   It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

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(10 votes)   We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

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(9 votes)   The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

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(8 votes)   The broader issue of the real role of the U.S., the foreign assistance aspect of that, who's going to pay for the security of a global economy?

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(7 votes)   White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

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