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Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist. He commented that poor countries are poor because they are hot, infertile, infested by [[malaria]], often landlocked, and lack investment to help them overcome those endemic problems. Sachs argues that, as these countries are poor, they cannot pay for the investments, falling into what is known as “poverty trap.”<ref name="Duflo">{{cite book |last1=Banerjee |first1=Abhijit V. |last2=Duflo |first2=Esther |title=Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty |date=27 March 2012 |publisher=PublicAffairs |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books/about/Poor_Economics.html?id=2dlnBoX4licC&redir_esc=y |language=en}}</ref> | Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist. He commented that poor countries are poor because they are hot, infertile, infested by [[malaria]], often landlocked, and lack investment to help them overcome those endemic problems. Sachs argues that, as these countries are poor, they cannot pay for the investments, falling into what is known as “poverty trap.”<ref name="Duflo">{{cite book |last1=Banerjee |first1=Abhijit V. |last2=Duflo |first2=Esther |title=Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty |date=27 March 2012 |publisher=PublicAffairs |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books/about/Poor_Economics.html?id=2dlnBoX4licC&redir_esc=y |language=en}}</ref> | ||
Sachs advocates for free bed-net distribution. | Sachs supports spending more on aid, and generally believes that infrastructure and education should be given away and that poor people should be oriented into what is good for them. Sachs advocates for free bed-net distribution. | ||
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Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist. He commented that poor countries are poor because they are hot, infertile, infested by malaria, often landlocked, and lack investment to help them overcome those endemic problems. Sachs argues that, as these countries are poor, they cannot pay for the investments, falling into what is known as “poverty trap.”[1]
Sachs supports spending more on aid, and generally believes that infrastructure and education should be given away and that poor people should be oriented into what is good for them. Sachs advocates for free bed-net distribution.