the world.
"I like to think there are lot of
Jewish values in there," he-says when
asked about Jewish influences.
"Tikkun Olam (the repair of a broken
world) is a general theme of life," he
says. "My father was obviously a very
huge influence."
Sachs spent parts of both 1979 and
1980 in Israel, working and publish-
ing papers and a book with Professor
Michael Bruno who then headed the
economics department of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. He was later
Sachs' graduate adviser at Harvard.
Though he plays key roles in struc-
turing and restructuring economies
and sits at the table at the
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
and the World Bank, he says he hasn't
felt the sting of anti-Semitism.
"I never experienced anti-Semitism
in my entire career, which is quite a
notable thing since I've been quite
high profile in a lot of places," says
Sachs. "I have never been used as a
point of attack. It is very fortunate

of very practical things that we could
be doing to make a huge difference."

Foreign Aid

"I ask that we look at aid in not its
most short-run geopolitical context
but as assistance for economic devel-
opment. If you do that, you would
spend a lot more time thinking
about the long-term benefits of fight-
ing disease or helping to provide safe
drinking water or invest in basic
infrastructure."

The Military Approach

"It's a very shortsighted misunder-
standing of what the real problems
and solutions are for [fighting terror-
ism in] places like these [Africa]. It
all strikes me as utterly naive because

To Learn More ...

These Web sites offer more informa-
tion on world poverty:

The Earth Institute at Columbia
Univesrity www.earth.columbia.edu

The U.N. Millennium Project
www.unmillenniumproject.org

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria
www.theglobalfiind.org

and, for me, very meaningful.
"People warned me and said when I
worked in Poland I would experience
anti-Semitism, but I never did for one
moment. I had a very warm reception
and never a glimmer. That has been
true in dozens and dozens of countries
where I've worked," he says.
"Even literate, newshound
Americans don't know about world
poverty. They don't know how little it
takes to make a big difference in peo-
ple's lives and how cheap it is," says
Ruth Messinger, president of the
American Jewish World Service in
New York.
AJWS provides humanitarian aid,
technical assistance and skilled volun-
teers to local grassroots groups in Asia,
Africa, the Middle East, Latin
America, Russia and the Ukraine.
Projects involve health, education,
agriculture, micro enterprise, econom-
ic development, human rights and
civil society.

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those places are just at the very, very
bottom of the list of well-being in
the world. The people are very hun-
gry; there is a lot of disease and a
great scarcity of water. If we want to
make those places stable and allied to
longer-term U.S. interests, the mili-
tary approach is not going to stand a
chance. The developmental approach
could really be quite effective."

What America Needs To Do

"We have signed on to the
Millenium Development Goals and
have said we would help to have -
them achieved, but then we don't fol-
low through and that's the biggest
problem I find."

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www.ajws.org

U.S. Partnership for the Decade of
Education for Sustainable
Development
www.uspartnership.org

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www.coopamerica.org

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www.abetterfuture.org

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