Jeffrey Sachs - 2020 Shaping Ideas

See more videos at http://www.ericsson.com/2020shapingideas/. Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University, is one of the world's foremost experts on poverty reduction. He explains how mobile phones are decreasing economic isolation in Africa, and why we could be halfway to achieving an important goal in 2020: the end of extreme poverty.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ericsson
• multimedia
• ericssonmultimedia
• Jeffrey
• Sachs
• 2020
• shaping ideas
• fighting poverty
• columbia university
• UN
• africa
• millenium villages

[dragonfart28]

huh.. looks like the astroturfers are out in full force. Competing interests must be pretty scared of this guy.

[JunLiga]

I think the concept of using wireless conectivity as a means to inspire and educate people can be worthwhile.

[zsezse215]

'We must also guard against the equal and opposite danger that public policy itself could become the captive of a scientific technological elite' Eisenhowers Farewell Address We are living Orwells 1984 philipnute com

[ConstructiveMinds100]

@Objetivismo Fully agree with you. This guy is totaly disconected from the real world. Another humanist who lucks common sense and logic. Fudalism is already back even in developed countries. MOre people on this planet will only deteriorate this situation.

[MalNaprej]

Jeffrey Sachs is talking about poverty? Everywhere he went to "build" a better economy there was even greater poverty than before. Look at Poland for instance, in the early 90's he went there with the economy plan for a better Poland yet Poland is now a country with the biggest unemployment rate in the European union. Dear Jeffrey u and ur neo-liberalism ideas are pure garbage.

[pandoreman]

51208 views are enough, Sachs virus can not be spread out through a wise network.. Now youth knows; and this is NOT the solution.

[blackrobe2007]

I see then Jeffrey Sachs has finally adopted William Easterly's approach. Let the "searchers" find a way.

[bojisti]

@darwincity Do you even know if this so called "economic growth" translates into actual social well-being, or you are just too busy repeating a 40 year old lie about a "triple down effect" that never manifested itself. The theological belief that human beings are driven by "economic rationality" and the dismissal of social responsibility has led to unprecedented psychotic behavior of bankers and corporate CIOs and that is what has increased poverty and suffering around the world.

[darwincity]

@Objetivismo OK, but such a shift will require, before anything else, two key elements in any functioning country: a functional and efficient justice and antitrust system. Looking at the corruption in those countries, any attempt at capitalism conversion would look like Russia rather than Poland. There is a need to prepare such a system, either through dictatorship (Chile) or through the emergence of a paternalistic figure which reassures the population in change (Czech Republic and Poland).

[darwincity]

@bojisti Well, it does have higher economic growth rates than Western Europe, and the general economic outlook for Europe would be much bleaker for Europe without Eastern Europe. Also, some time in the future, I do think that the people who left Eastern Europe will come back, just to experience the higher growth rates and the economic prosperity such things can bring to someone's life...