杰弗里·萨克斯教授的书籍

杰弗里·萨克斯教授的书籍

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可持续发展行动中的道德规范 (2022)

联合国于 2015 年通过的可持续发展目标是一项雄心勃勃、范围广泛的议程，将经济、社会和环境目标统一起来。世界宗教和世俗传统为支持这些目标提供了哪些资源？这些传统有哪些共同的原则，这些共同的价值观如何帮助推进全球目标？

本书介绍了不同宗教领袖、跨学科学者和从业者之间为寻求能够为可持续发展努力奠定基础的道德共识而进行的深入而深入的对话。本书借鉴了杰弗里·萨克斯和马塞洛·桑切斯·索隆多两年多的密切讨论，为如何促进人类繁荣提供了广泛而包容的愿景。本书以丰富多样、深入的神学、哲学和伦理学探讨了可持续发展的挑战，探讨了贫困、环境正义、和平、冲突和工作的未来等问题。书中包括关于可持续发展道德要求的共识声明、七大宗教传统及其共同利益概念的介绍以及主题反思。本书内容广泛、紧迫，对宗教间对话和全球共同伦理的表达做出了重大贡献。

全球化时代：地理、技术和机构 (2020)

当今最紧迫的问题从根本上说是全球性的。如果我们要确保长远的未来，就需要全球范围内的协调行动。但人类的故事一直是全球性的。在这本书中，著名经济学家和可持续发展专家杰弗里·萨克斯 (Jeffrey D. Sachs) 回顾世界历史，阐明了我们如何应对 21 世纪的挑战和机遇。

萨克斯带领读者经历了七次不同的技术和制度变革浪潮，从早期现代人类通过长距离迁徙在地球上定居开始，到对当今全球化的反思结束。在此过程中，他思考了地理、技术和制度的相互作用如何影响新石器时代革命；马在帝国兴起中的作用；古典时代大型陆基帝国的扩张；从欧洲到亚洲和美洲的海上航线开通后全球帝国的崛起；以及工业时代。萨克斯表明，过去这些浪潮的动态为我们这个时代正在发生的进程提供了新的视角——基于数字技术的全球化。萨克斯强调需要新的国际治理和合作方法来防止冲突并实现与可持续发展相一致的经济、社会和环境目标。《全球化时代》对于所有想要理解我们这个快速变化的世界的读者来说都是一本至关重要的书。

新外交政策：超越美国例外论 (2018)

美国世纪始于 1941 年，结束于 2017 年 1 月 20 日。虽然美国仍然是一个军事巨人，仍然是一个经济强国，但它不再像以前那样主宰世界经济或地缘政治。当前外交政策转向民族主义和“美国优先”单边主义，不会让美国变得伟大。相反，它代表了我们在面临严重环境威胁、政治动荡、大规模移民和其他全球挑战时放弃责任。

在这本深刻而有力的书中，杰弗里·萨克斯为新的外交政策提供了蓝图，该政策包含全球合作、国际法和对全球繁荣的渴望——而不是民族主义和过去辉煌的虚幻梦想。他认为，美国对世界的态度必须从军事力量和选择性战争转变为对可持续发展的共同目标的承诺。我们对主导地位的追求使我们陷入了不明智和无法取胜的战争，现在是时候从战争转向和平，是时候抓住国际合作提供的机遇了。《新外交政策》探讨了“美国优先”思维模式的危险和新出路的可能性，提出了及时和可行的计划，以促进全球经济增长，为二十一世纪重新配置联合国，并建立一个繁荣、和平、公平和有弹性的多极世界。

建设新美国经济：智能、公平和可持续 (2017)

在这本充满激情和力量的书中——一部分是宣言，一部分是行动计划——著名经济学家杰弗里·萨克斯提出了一项切实可行的战略，让看似比以往任何时候都更加分裂的美国走向新的共识：可持续发展。可持续发展是

一种强调经济、社会和环境目标制定政策的整体方法。由于过于关注经济增长，美国忽视了日益加剧的经济不平等和严峻的环境威胁。现在，甚至经济增长也岌岌可危。

萨克斯探讨了吸引全国和政治辩论的议题，包括基础设施、贸易协定、能源政策、政府的适当规模和作用、国家债务和收入不平等。他不仅对每个案例中起作用的力量提供了富有启发性和通俗易懂的解释，而且还提出了具体的政策解决方案。他的论点超越了政治瘫痪、经济停滞和党派偏见所导致的悲观情绪，设计出一条个人和集体都可以实现的更光明的前进道路。在《建设新美国经济》一书中，萨克斯展示了美国如何找到一条公平且环境可持续的经济发展新路。

可持续发展时代 (2015)

杰弗里·萨克斯是全球发展领域最敏锐、最独创的分析家之一。在这部重要的新作中，他提出了一个令人信服且实用的框架，说明全球公民如何采用一种整体方式来解决看似棘手的全球性问题，即持续的极端贫困、环境恶化和政治经济不公：可持续发展。

萨克斯为读者、学生、活动家、环保主义者和政策制定者提供了实现可持续发展目标所需的工具、指标和实用途径。这本书远不止是一篇修辞练习，其目的是提供信息、启发和推动行动。基于萨克斯担任哥伦比亚大学地球研究所所长的十二年经历、他为联合国秘书长提供千年发展目标建议的十三年经历，以及他最近在一门受欢迎的在线课程中对这些想法的介绍，《可持续发展时代》是一部具有里程碑意义的出版物，也是对所有关心地球和全球正义的人的号召。

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《推动世界：肯尼迪总统的和平追求》（2014 年）

约翰·肯尼迪一生中最后一次伟大的竞选不是他未能在世时发起的连任之战，而是为与苏联实现持久和平而斗争。《推动世界》回顾了 1962 年 10 月至 1963 年 9 月的非凡岁月，当时肯尼迪总统运用其雄辩的口才和非凡的政治技巧，与苏联建立了更加和平的关系，并大幅减缓了核武器的扩散。

肯尼迪总统和苏联同行尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫在古巴导弹危机期间领导了他们的国家，当时两个超级大国在核深渊面前针锋相对。这次濒死体验深深震撼了两位领导人。杰弗里·萨克斯展示了肯尼迪如何凭借决心和非凡的技能走出导弹危机，为世界开辟一个新的、威胁较小的方向。他和赫鲁晓夫一起将世界从核悬崖边拉开，为未来的和平缔造者指明了道路。

在任期的最后一年，肯尼迪发表了一系列演讲，他力图扭转冷战的势头，说服世界相信与苏联实现和平是可能的。1963 年 6 月 10 日，肯尼迪发表了现代总统任期内最重要的外交政策演讲，这是他演讲的巅峰。他反对当时盛行的悲观主义，即认为人类注定要被无法控制的力量毁灭。肯尼迪认为，人类可以通过大胆的愿景和具体而实际的措施，将新的和平带入现实。

然而，在 1963 年夏天实现第一项措施，即《部分禁止核试验条约》，需要的不仅仅是发表演讲。肯尼迪不得不在多个方面运用他卓越的说服天赋——面对难以驾驭的盟友、鹰派共和党议员、他自己政府中可疑的成员以及美国和世界公众——来说服持怀疑态度的世界，让世界相信超级大国之间的合作是现实且必要的。萨克斯展示了肯尼迪如何为他的愿景而战，并让美国人民和世界看到了和平的可能性。

《感动世界》收录了肯尼迪这一时期的演讲全文以及引人注目的照片，为我们提供了一个令人震惊的全新视角来看待肯尼迪的总统任期，以及我们这个时代强有力的领导和解决问题的典范。

《文明的代价：重新唤醒美国的美德和繁荣》（2012 年）

在这本有力而充满激情的书中，杰弗里·萨克斯对我国的经济弊病进行了尖锐而深刻的诊断，并紧急呼吁美国人恢复公平、诚实和远见的核心美德

全球化是国家繁荣的基础。萨克斯发现，两党和许多著名经济学家都忽视了全局，严重低估了全球化的长期影响，并提出了短视的解决方案。他描述了一个受制于大捐赠者和有影响力的游说者的政治体系，以及一种缺乏社会信任和同情的消费驱动型文化。他呼吁读者重新树立良好公民道德，关注经济和彼此。最重要的是，他敦促我们每个人都接受文明的代价，这样我们才能共同让美国重拾其伟大的承诺。《文明的代价》是一份精妙的繁荣路线图，它建立在美国最深刻的价值观和对二十一世纪世界经济的严格理解之上。

提高公共卫生服务的可及性和效率 (2010)

与 Nirupam Bajpai 和 Ravindra H. Dholakia 合著

本书介绍了印度最大的农村卫生计划国家农村卫生使命 (NRHM) 的流程的系统中期评估。本研究利用了地区级健康调查 (DLHS)、全国家庭健康调查 (NFHS) 和样本登记系统 (SRS) 的数据以及从实地调查和卫生职能部门访谈中收集的原始数据进行实证分析。它借助广泛的实地观察、数据分析以及卫生和营养部门专家的意见，讨论了该使命的挑战和成功，重点关注孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康问题以及慢性病。

本书借鉴了在中央邦、北方邦和拉贾斯坦邦三个邦的实地考察中收集的数据。在评估了 NRHM 进程和迄今取得的进展后，它讨论了重要的现实情况，确定了任务实施中的差距和瓶颈，并建议采取纠正措施。

本书将对所有关注卫生和公共管理问题（特别是农村卫生问题）的人都有用，例如非政府组织、政府间组织、记者、专栏作家、公共政策规划人员、公务员和其他从业人员。

共同财富：拥挤星球的经济学（2008 年）

在《共同财富》一书中，杰弗里·萨克斯（Jeffrey D. Sachs）——世界上最受尊敬的经济学家之一，也是《纽约时报》畅销书《贫困的终结》的作者——对威胁全球和平与繁荣的环境恶化、人口快速增长和极端贫困进行了紧急评估。通过对铁一般事实的清晰分析，萨克斯预测了这个拥挤星球将面临的一系列危机——并提出了一项可持续发展和国际合作计划，以纠正这一危险的进程。世界上很少有名人像萨克斯一样精通这一令人生畏的学科，这是他的经验和智慧的重要成果。

《贫困、艾滋病和饥饿：打破马拉维的贫困陷阱》（2006 年）

作者：安妮·C·康罗伊、马尔科姆·J·布莱基、艾伦·怀特塞德和贾斯汀·C·马莱韦齐

利用非洲大陆最贫穷的国家之一马拉维的经验，说明贫困带来的挑战和存在的变革机会。《贫困、艾滋病和饥饿》概述了一种易于复制的模式，成本适中，可以让人们迅速摆脱贫困，并带来可持续的收益。

《贫困的终结：我们时代的经济可能性》（2005 年）

杰弗里·萨克斯被《时代》杂志誉为全球百位最具影响力的人物之一，他因在全球为危机中的经济体提供咨询而闻名。 《贫困的终结》现已成为该类型书籍的经典之作，它总结了三十多年的经验，提供了独特的见解，阐明了如何将贫困国家转变为繁荣国家。萨克斯将生动的故事叙述与严谨的分析相结合，绘制了一幅清晰的世界经济概念图。他解释了自己在玻利维亚、俄罗斯、印度、中国和非洲的工作，并针对世界上最贫穷的国家所面临的相互交织的经济、政治、环境和社会问题提出了一套综合解决方案。

《贫困的终结》首次出版十年后，仍然是一本不可或缺、影响深远的作品。在这本十周年纪念版中，萨克斯撰写了一份详尽的新序言，评估了过去十年的进展、尚待完成的工作以及我们每个人可以如何提供帮助。他还展望了未来十五年，即 2030 年，即联合国消除极端贫困的目标日期，并提出了新的见解和建议。

经济改革时代的印度 (2000)

与 Ashutosh Varshney 和 Nirupaum Bajpai 合著

本书的论文由经济学家和政治学家撰写，不仅分析了改革对整个经济的影响，还评估了印度 1991 年后公共财政、农业、实验室状况

或市场、出口、中央与各州的关系以及经济改革与印度种姓制度和世俗主义斗争之间的联系。

《波兰向市场经济的跃进》（1993 年）

内部人士对该国迅速向资本主义和民主转型背后的政治事件和经济战略的分析

在《波兰向市场经济的跃进》一书中，杰弗里·萨克斯对该国迅速向资本主义和民主转型背后的政治事件和经济战略进行了内部人士的分析。萨克斯指出，经济改革面临的最大挑战主要是政治性的，而不是社会性的，甚至不是经济性的。萨克斯回顾了波兰自三年前开始经济改革以来取得的显著进展，他参与了经济改革的设计。他讨论了波兰取得的成果——目前私营部门的就业和国内生产总值占比超过一半，对西欧的出口增长了一倍多，经济增长和信心正在恢复——以及仍然存在的严重问题——高失业率、长期财政赤字、大型工业企业私有化步伐缓慢以及多党联合政府的脆弱性。萨克斯指出，领导力对于新民主环境下的经济改革至关重要，西方及时的经济援助也是如此。在波兰的案例中，兹罗提稳定基金和两阶段债务取消对于保持改革计划的正常进行至关重要。波兰的例子对包括前苏联在内的整个地区的改革产生了强大的影响，并在很大程度上消除了人们的担忧，即几十年的社会主义制度使公民变得懒惰，他们会拒绝市场经济的竞争。总的来说，萨克斯仍然坚信波兰和该地区其他国家的经济改革有成功的潜力。

全球经济中的宏观经济学 (1993)

作者：Felipe Larraín B. 和 Jeffrey D. Sachs

本教材是为核心中级宏观经济学课程编写的，该课程是所有经济学学位课程的重要组成部分。作者强调宏观经济结果的多样性，而不是单一理论，反映了宏观经济学中不断变化的争论。更重要的是，这本书反映了宏观经济学的一场新革命，即开放经济方法对于研究该主题至关重要。以前占主导地位的封闭经济方法忽略了一个事实，即对于许多国家而言，国家之间的贸易和资本流动是国民经济的主要影响因素，甚至是主导因素。

全球联系：世界经济中的宏观经济相互依存与合作 (1991)

作者：Warwick J. McKibbin 和 Jeffrey D. Sachs

随着 20 世纪 80 年代美国贸易平衡的迅速恶化，美国被迫通过大量借款来弥补赤字。在此过程中，美国从世界最大债权国变成了世界最大债务国，而日本和西德的贸易顺差则有所增加。国际贸易流动的这种转变对世界经济产生了深远的影响。

麦克吉宾和萨克斯探讨了一系列涉及世界经济宏观经济失衡的问题。他们通过使用一种新的世界经济模拟模型，探索了一个国家采取的政策行动如何影响其他国家之间的贸易流动和宏观经济模式。作者指出，20 世纪 80 年代的主要宏观经济特征可以用主要经济体货币和财政政策的转变以及油价变化导致的供应冲击来解释。

除了展示如何理解全球宏观经济经验外，他们还关注了许多当前的政策问题，包括减少全球贸易失衡、美国财政整顿的后果、石油价格冲击的影响、日本和德国财政支出增加对美国经济的影响、主要货币之间汇率目标的影响以及主要经济体之间宏观经济政策协调加强的收益。在一些情况下，他们的结论与许多传统观点的基础截然不同。作者还分析了工业经济体政策制定者之间互动的重要性，并最后再次强调美国政界人士和政策专家需要认识到，美国的宏观经济结果现在在很大程度上取决于国外事件。

全球滞胀经济学 (1985)

作者：迈克尔·布鲁诺和杰弗里·萨克斯

本书阐述了滞胀的理论和比较实证分析，滞胀是过去十五年困扰发达工业国家的高失业率、缓慢增长和高通胀的奇特组合。

作者首先构建了一个小型宏观经济模型，该模型全面考虑了

在单一经济体和多经济体的背景下，总需求和供应力量在决定产出、就业和价格水平方面的作用。然后，他们应用该模型来了解工业国家在失业、通货膨胀、生产率和投资增长方面的比较表现。他们令人信服地指出，这一时期主要经济体的衰退是 20 世纪 70 年代的供应冲击造成的，例如欧佩克两次大幅提高石油价格，以及随之而来的政策引发的通胀压力导致的需求下降。他们的分析与类似研究有显著不同，因为它特别考虑了不同经济体劳动力市场的制度差异。这有助于解释美国和欧洲不同的调整情况。

迈克尔·布鲁诺和杰弗里·萨克斯对需求管理和收入政策的组合提出了几项重要建议，这些政策对于对抗个别国家的滞胀以及协调主要工业国家之间的宏观经济政策是必不可少的。

Books of Professor Jeffrey Sachs 

https://www.jeffsachs.org/books
Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022)
The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world’s religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these shared values help advance global goals?

This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts. Drawing on more than two years of close-knit discussions convened by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, it offers an extensive and inclusive vision of how to promote human flourishing. The book features theological, philosophical, and ethical deliberations of great diversity and depth on the challenges of sustainable development, addressing questions of poverty, environmental justice, peace, conflict, and the future of work. It includes consensus statements on the moral imperatives of sustainable development, introductions to seven major religious traditions and their conceptions of the common good, and thematic reflections. Wide-ranging and urgent, this book represents a major contribution to interreligious dialogue and to the articulation of a shared global ethics.

The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020)

Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.

A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018)

The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America great. Instead, it represents the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of severe environmental threats, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges.

In this incisive and forceful book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity—not nationalism and gauzy dreams of past glory. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. Our pursuit of primacy has embroiled us in unwise and unwinnable wars, and it is time to shift from making war to making peace and time to embrace the opportunities that international cooperation offers. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.

Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (2017)

In this passionate and powerful book—part manifesto, part plan of action—the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental objectives in shaping policy. In focusing too much on economic growth, the United States has neglected rising economic inequality and dire environmental threats. Now, even growth is imperiled.

Sachs explores issues that have captivated the nation and political debate, including infrastructure, trade deals, energy policy, the proper size and role of government, the national debt, and income inequality. Not only does he provide illuminating and accessible explanations of the forces at work in each case, but he also presents specific policy solutions. His argument rises above the pessimism born of political paralysis, economic stagnation, and partisanship to devise a brighter way forward, achievable both individually and collectively. In Building the New American Economy, Sachs shows how the United States can find a path to renewed economic progress that is fair and environmentally sustainable.

The Age of Sustainable Development (2015)

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.

Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

Visit our supplemental materials page for additional teaching materials for students and instructors, including chapter summaries, key concepts, problem sets, and slides.

To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (2014)

The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World recalls the extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his remarkable political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms.

Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came eyeball to eyeball at the nuclear abyss. This near-death experience shook both leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Missile crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow.

During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency. He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures.

Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. Kennedy had to use his great gifts of persuasion on multiple fronts—with fractious allies, hawkish Republican congressmen, dubious members of his own administration, and the American and world public—to persuade a skeptical world that cooperation between the superpowers was realistic and necessary. Sachs shows how Kennedy campaigned for his vision and opened the eyes of the American people and the world to the possibilities of peace.

Featuring the full text of JFK’s speeches from this period, as well as striking photographs, To Move the World gives us a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedy’s presidency and a model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time.

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity (2012)

In this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills, and an urgent call for Americans to restore the core virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. Sachs finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, profoundly underestimating globalization’s long-term effects and offering shortsighted solutions. He describes a political system that is beholden to big donors and influential lobbyists and a consumption-driven culture that suffers shortfalls of social trust and compassion. He bids readers to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and each one another. Most important, he urges each of us to accept the price of civilization, so that together we restore America to its great promise. The Price of Civilization is a masterly road map for prosperity, founded on America’s deepest values and on a rigorous understanding of the twenty-first-century world economy.

Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services (2010)

with Nirupam Bajpai and Ravindra H. Dholakia

This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), India's biggest rural health program. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data collected from field surveys and interviews with health functionaries have been utilized for undertaking empirical analysis in the study. It discusses the challenges and successes of the Mission with the help of extensive field observations, data analysis, and inputs from experts on health and nutrition sectors focusing on maternal, newborn, and child health issues and chronic diseases.

The book draws from data collected in field visits in the three states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. After assessing the NRHM processes and progress achieved so far, it discusses important ground realities, identifies the gaps and bottlenecks in the implementation of the Mission and recommends corrective actions.

The book will be useful for all those concerned with the issue of health and public administration in general and rural health in particular, such as, NGOs, IGOs, journalists, columnists, public policy planners, civil servants, and other practitioners.

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)

In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world’s most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty– offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity. Through crystalline examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts the cascade of crises that awaits this crowded planet-and presents a program of sustainable development and international cooperation that will correct this dangerous course. Few luminaries anywhere on the planet are as schooled in this daunting subject as Sachs, and this is the vital product of his experience and wisdom.

Poverty, AIDS and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi (2006)

with Anne C. Conroy, Malcolm J. Blackie, Alan Whiteside, and Justin C. Malewezi

Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005)

Hailed by Time as one of the world’s hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world’s poorest countries.

Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations’ target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

India in the Era of Economic Reforms (2000)

With Ashutosh Varshney and Nirupaum Bajpai

Written by economists and political scientists, the essays in this volume not only analyze the impact of reforms on the economy as a whole, but also assess the state of India's post-1991 public finances, agriculture, labor markets, exports, center-state relations and the connection of economic reforms with India's battle over caste and secularism.

Poland’s Jump to the Market Economy (1993)

An insider's analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the country's swift transition to capitalism and democracy

In Poland's Jump to the Market Economy, Jeffrey Sachs provides an insider's analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the country's swift transition to capitalism and democracy. The greatest challenges to economic reform, Sachs points out, have been primarily political in nature, rather than social or even economic. Sachs reviews Poland's striking progress since the start of the economic reforms three years ago, which he helped to design. He discusses the gains - more than half of employment and GDP is now in the private sector, exports to Western Europe have more than doubled, and economic growth and confidence are returning - as well as the serious problems that remain - high unemployment, a chronic fiscal deficit, the slow pace of privatization of large industrial enterprises, and the fragility of multiparty coalition governments.Sachs points out that leadership is crucial to economic reform in a newly democratic setting, as is the West's timely economic assistance. In Poland's case, the Zloty Stabilization Fund and the two-stage debt cancellation have been essential to keeping the reform program on track. Poland's example has had a powerful impact on reforms throughout the region, including the former Soviet Union, and has done much to dispel the fear that the citizens themselves, allegedly made lazy by decades of socialism, would reject the competitive rigors of a market economy. Overall, Sachs remains firmly convinced of the potential for successful economic reforms in Poland and the rest of the region.

Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (1993)

By Felipe Larraín B. and Jeffrey D. Sachs

This textbook is written for the core intermediate macroeconomics course which forms an essential part of all economics degrees. The authors reflect the continually changing debate in macroeconomics by stressing the great variety of possible macroeconomic outcomes, rather than a single theory. More importantly the book reflects a new revolution in macroeconomics that an open economy approach is essential to the study of the subject. The previously ascendant closed economy approaches have ignored the fact that, for many countries, trade and capital flows between countries are a dominant, if not the dominant influence on the national economy.

Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy (1991)

by Warwick J. McKibbin and Jeffrey D. Sachs

With the rapid deterioration of the U.S. trade balance in the 1980s, the United States was forced to finance deficits by borrowing heavily from the rest of the world. In doing so, the United States went from being the world’s largest creditor country to the world’s largest debtor, while Japan and West Germany experienced a rise in trade surpluses. Such a shift in international trade flows has had profound effects on the world economy.

McKibbin and Sachs address a range of issues involving macroeconomic imbalances in the world economy. Through the use of a new simulation model of the world economy they explore how policy actions undertaken in one country affect the trade flows and macroeconomic patterns among the other counties. The authors show that key macroeconomic features of the 1980s can be explained by shifts in monetary and fiscal policies in the major economies and by supply shocks due to changes in oil prices.

In addition to showing how the global macroeconomic experience can be understood, they focus on a number of current policy issues, including the reduction of global trade imbalances, the consequences of U.S. fiscal consolidation, the effects of an oil price shock, the implications for the U.S. economy of increases in Japanese and German fiscal spending, the effects of targeting exchange rates among the major currencies, and the gains of increased coordination of macroeconomic politics among the major economies. In several cases, their conclusions are shown to be quite different from those that form the basis of many conventional views. The authors also analyze the importance of interaction between policymakers in industrial economies and conclude by reemphasizing the need for U.S. politicians and policy experts to recognize that macroeconomic results in the U.S. now depend heavily on events abroad.

Economics of Worldwide Stagflation (1985)

by Michael Bruno and Jeffrey D. Sachs

This book sets forth both a theory and a comparative empirical analysis of stagflation, that peculiar combination of high unemployment, slow growth, and spurts of high inflation bedeviling the advanced industrial nations during the past fifteen years.

The authors first construct a small macroeconomic model that takes full account of aggregate demand and supply forces in the determination of output, employment, and the price level, in both a single-economy and a multi-economy setting. They then apply the model to provide an understanding of comparative performance of industrial countries in the areas of unemployment, inflation, productivity, and investment growth. They argue convincingly that the decay of the major economies during this period resulted from the supply shocks of the 1970s, such as the two major OPEC oil-price increases, and from the consequent policy-induced decrease in demand in response to inflationary pressures. Their analysis differs markedly from similar studies in that it takes specific account of institutional differences in the labor markets of the various economies. This helps to explain in particular the divergent adjustment profiles of the United States and Europe.

Michael Bruno and Jeffrey D. Sachs make several key recommendations for the mix of demand management and incomes policies necessary to combat stagflation in individual countries as well as for the coordination of macroeconomic policies among the major industrial nations.