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Jeffrey Sachs

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Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

I read Professor Jeffrey Sach’s book “The End of Poverty – Economic Possibilities for our Time” in May 2005, just as I was in what I thought would be the the final rewrite of the manuscript for the book 'Turning Development Upside Down'. Compared to Professor Sachs I had a broader education and training, a longer and wider experience, and as a result a very different perspective of the problems. In 2005 I had already been working in developing countries for about thirty years and much of this time in the area of “relief and development”