SACHS & The POOR

Jeffrey Sachs has probably done more to shape contemporary low horizons on global poverty than any other individual. Time magazine has twice named the celebrity economist as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is a special adviser to the United Nations secretary general on the Millennium Development Goals and a former director of the United Nations Millennium Project (1). The goals supported by such campaigns as Make Poverty History, including halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day by 2015, were largely formulated by him (2). If Bono – the lead singer of U2, who calls Sachs ‘my professor’ – is the official face of making poverty history, then Sachs is the brain and often the voice behind the campaign