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Jeffrey Sachs: Ending Global Poverty
March 5, 2002
Jeffrey Sachs UN advisor, poverty, health and education

Jefferey Sachs discuses the challenge of ending the poverty that afflicts so much of the world today.

Jeffrey Sachs, renowned expert on the economic and social devastation of AIDS in developing countries, has been recently named by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, as Special UN Advisor on Poverty, Health and Education.

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