Jeffery Sachs on The Colbert Report

In a recent video added to YouTube, Stephen Colbert talks to professor Jeffrey Sachs about his book “The End of Poverty“, or why eradicating poverty might be more effective in fighting terrorism than the military. (The Colbert Report, March 2, 2006)

See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdc7atFiHg

With a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Jeffery Sachs is an American Economist who has done extensive work in the fields of hunger and poverty. He wrote many books including The End Of Poverty. Jeffery Sachs has advised institutions such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, the IMF, the United Nations Development Programme, and the OECD. He is currently the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and of the United Nations Millennium Project. He works as a professor in Columbia’s Department of Economics, School of International and Public Affairs and Department of Health Policy and Management.

You can buy Jeffery Sachs book, The End Of Poverty, by clicking here

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