Jeffrey Sachs Quotes

We Are Not At War (except With Our Own Demons).

The Runs Started In Thailand After The Imf Intervened In Such A Dramatic Way. Then The Imf Came To Indonesia.

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.

In Asia, A Lot Of Successful Economies That Had Been Living On Their Own Saving, Decided To Open Up Their Financial Markets To International Capital In The Early 1990s. So Here Were Countries Doing Quite Well, But They Decided To Borrow A Bit More And Do Even Better.

I Think The Imf Helped To Detonate The Indonesian Crisis.

Despite A Decade Of Criticism And Budget Cuts, The Specialised Un Agencies Have Far More Expertise And Hands-on Experience Than Any Other Organisations In The World.

Unfortunately, The Real Focus In This Country Has Not Been On The Rest Of The World. It's Been On Our Own Issues And Our Own Problems. Fair Enough. But It Means That Our Simple Hopes That Everything Will Just Work Out Abroad Aren't Really Coming To Pass.

If We Did Go Into A Recession, Something That's Always Possible For The U.s. Or Europe, We Could Lower Interest Rates And Expand The Money Supply Without Worrying About The Price Of Gold.

Globalization Was A Deep Trend Pushed By Technology And Right Ideas, As Much As Anything Else.

There's A Lot Of Strength In The U.s., But There's A Lot Of Froth Also. The Froth Will Blow Off. We're Going To Have To Face Up To Some Realities That We're Not Fully Facing Up To Right Now.

The World Got Side-tracked From Development Issues During The Post-9/11 Crisis Period.

It's The American Leadership That Has Not Played The Role It Should Be Playing And That Leaders In Other Countries Have Been Playing.