Jeffrey Sachs' newest craze (courtesy of AidWatch and wronging rights)
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Sachs is all talk and no action as usual! He excessively obsesses over the round numbers - a decade ago it was the Jubilee (forgiving all foreign debt at the turn of the new millennium in 2000) and now 2020 - but he is yet to prove that it works. Gah! It makes me so annoyed to watch his smug self. Who are you trying to convince, Mr. Sachs? The average American? And of what exactly? That you're a good guy trying to end poverty? Well, where are you results? And don't give me that same old "if everyone does his or her own little bit, if everyone lends a helping hand (meaning dollar), we will conquer all evil." I'm really not sure where he stands exactly; he obviously has some ideas about environmental protection and development economics, but how do we reconcile the two? Am I missing something? I haven't watched a single interview where he gives a concrete agenda and what's more important - results, figures, data. We all thrive on those.
Either way, I am still forcing myself to read beyond Bono's foreword in "The End of Poverty"and I was much too tired to watch the movie screening at my alma mater recently. To be completely honest, Bono's rendition of the notion of poverty and its intertwined relations with terrorism and 9/11 caught me completely off guard, threw me off, and I am finding it really hard not to feel outraged at this sly, humanistic on the surface but really just moronic argument-attempt at brainwashing. To be continued; it shall be a challenge.
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