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The Millennium Development Goals were commitments made in the year 2000 by the UN to help Africa and other poor regions of the world end extreme poverty, and also to…
How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…
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Our most important mission and goal is to increase access to modern energy in poor places in the world so that simple daily tasks can be achieved much more easily and…
A World Without Modern Energy
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This conversation with Professor Mariana Mazzucato, took place on April 26, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Prof. Mazzucato's new…
Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission…
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This video is the first video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
What do we mean by Nature-based Solutions to…
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"Laudato Si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic…
The Rights of Indigenous Populations
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How can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related…
The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…
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In this first session of The Turn, Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger set the stage for their discussion and seek to answer the question "What…
Stagnant and divided: Socially-inclusive economic…
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Progress in the fight against poverty has been made in the poorest large countries in Asia in the last 40 years and the pace of progress in eliminating poverty has been…
Poverty reduction in East Asia
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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist David Daokui Li as they discuss Professor Li’s brilliant new book, China's World View: Demystifying China to…
Conversation with David Daokui Li, China's…
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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, Lord Richard Layard and Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to discuss…
Conversation with Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel…
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In this session of the Book Club, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein discuss his book Reaganland, the "Southernization" of American politics,…
Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland
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The 11th edition of the World Happiness Report (WHR) was released on Monday, March 20, 2023, the International Day of Happiness. First published in 2012, the annual…
The 2023 World Happiness Report: An Asia-Pacific…
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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, a former Pentagon insider, as they explore the extremely important…
Conversation with Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal
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In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics…
Thinking about Alternatives
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In the ninth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger lays out his four-part vision of a truly progressive approach to education. …
The Capable Agent: Education
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Metrics and quantification are essential for measuring SDG progress, and in this chapter, Professor Sachs explores a number of ways that SDG metrics are becoming…
Data for Accountability and Decision-making
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