Jeffrey Sachs

ked diligently towards the development of the MVI under the joint leadership of the UN and the Government of Samoa, and in partnership with Professor Jeffrey Sachs and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. We are appreciative of the fact that the MVI is a tool that provides for a richer lens on vulnerab

ond 2015, which, we note, convened its first meeting earlier this week. Moreover, the launch of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, led by Jeffrey Sachs, is to be welcomed, as is the Secretary-General’s personal commitment to enriching the discourse on the future of our race. For our part, I would lik

and death. It will help us contribute to the MDG goal of halving hunger and poverty. I am delighted that the experts on the Hunger Task Force include Jeffrey Sachs, the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the MDGs. Ireland will maintain and increase its commitment to the work of the United Nations in the

, we are having to pay a high premium for something that contributes both to global warming and to our potential demise as Pacific islands. Professor Jeffrey Sachs has rightly said that, while we all need to work together to solve world poverty, the opportunity is there for the developed countries with their res

eoples some of the pernicious prejudices that prevent us from advancing. Permit me to recall three truths that have been defined a number of times by Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The first is that the illnesses ravaging poor countries are perfectly avoidable and can

rty. The Millennium Development Goals are a noble project. Sao Tome and Principe is grateful to Secretary- General Kofi Annan and the Goals’ Director Jeffrey Sachs for their tireless efforts to pull poor countries out of what Professor Sachs so rightly calls the poverty trap. But how did so many countries get in

-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, whose report (A/59/565) has truly revolutionized how all of us think about the Organization’s future. Jeffrey Sachs and his colleagues also delivered to us a remarkable document on “Investing in Development” — development that Canada has done so much to promote eve

th the conclusions reached in the Millennium Development Goals Needs Assessment report submitted to the Secretary-General by a team of experts led by Jeffrey Sachs, which state that Tajikistan has a unique opportunity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, in the context of their major parameters, by 2015.

of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, the final report of the United Nations Millennium Project “Investing in Development” (the Sachs report) and the Secretary-General’s report “In Larger Freedom”.

Specific measures must be adopted to enhance prevention and assistance in case of natural disasters. In this context, I would like to recall that the Sachs report identified Central America and the Caribbean as the region with the highest vulnerability indices to natural disasters. Similarly, it is indis

ation hopes that the Convention to Combat Desertification will take its rightful place in the discussions on the Millennium Project, led by Professor Jeffrey Sachs. With respect to financial resources, we call on the international community to make the fourth replenishment of the Global Environment Fund even gre

d far too much to the problems of rich countries. Why do we not make greater use of the United Nations framework to build bridges here? The economist Jeffrey Sachs made the interesting suggestion, for example, that a millennium vaccine fund could be established, with guaranteed markets in the future for vaccines

nd mechanisms for action that offer opportunities for development through trade and investment. We welcomed the views of Harvard University economist Jeffrey Sachs — published recently in The Economist and supported yesterday by President Clinton and today by Vice-Chancellor Fischer of Germany — regarding the ur