Jeffrey Sachs Ideas Quotations

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.

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

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

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.