Jeffrey D Sachs

Biographic Data

ID736173
NAMEJeffrey D Sachs
GIVEN NAMESJeffrey D
FAMILY NAMESachs
SIGNATURESACHS J D
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS433
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • How Does the USA Perform in the Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessEnda Murphy, Ethan Murphy et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2025References: 4

    Good quality data and reporting systems are fundamental to the achievement of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the United States of America (USA) currently lacks tools to adequately assess national SDG performance. This paper addresses this critical gap and presents a novel index methodology assessing the USA's performance in 137 SDG indicators relative to its best and worst‐performing Northern Hemisphere pee…

  • Sustainable Development Report 2022

    Open AccessJeff Sachs, Jeffrey Sachs et al.BOOKSustainable Development Report 20222022

    The Sustainable Development Report 2022 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. In a context of multiple crises, the report analyzes and outlines how the SDGs can be used as a roadmap for more sustainable societies by 2030 and beyond. In particular, this year's edition underlines the importance of international financing mechanism…

  • The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessJeff Sachs, Jeffrey D Sachs et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

  • Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development

    Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey D Sachs et al.BOOKEthics in Action for Sustainable…2022

    This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts

  • Sustainable Development Report 2021

    Open AccessJeff Sachs, Jeffrey Sachs et al.BOOKSustainable Development Report 20212021

    The Sustainable Development Report 2021 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyses and outlines what needs to happen for the Decade of Action and Delivery of the SDGs. In order to build back better following the Covid-19 pandemic, especially low-income countries will need increased fiscal space. The report fram…

  • Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D Sachs et al.BOOKMillennium Development Library2019

    This book presents the findings & recommendations of the UN Millennium Project to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It describes the importance of the MDGs and gives an explanation of the progress. The book provides recommendations to be implemented at the country level

  • The Ages of Globalization

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsBOOKThe Ages of Globalization2019

    Jeffrey D. Sachs turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. He takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with early modern humans and ending with reflections on today’s globalization.

  • Will America create a Cold War with China

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEChina Economic Journal2019

    American policy towards China is now up for grabs, with hardliners and soft-liners battling for the upper hand. The hardliners view China as an existential threat to American security and interests. The soft-liners regard China as a powerful counterpart, on occasion friend, competitor, or adversary, but not an existential threat. In my view, the hardline approach – to be pursued through protectionist trade policies and aggressive technology polic…

  • Some Brief Reflections on Digital Technologies and Economic Development

    Open AccessJeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2019Cited by: 1

    Among the many disruptions caused by artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies (including automation, cyberwarfare, surveillance, loss of privacy, fake news, infrastructure vulnerability), the effects on development pathways are likely to be significant and complex. AI will enable low-income countries to leapfrog in several sectors, including e-governance, e-finance, e-health, and e-education. Yet AI will also lead to automation…

  • National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards

    Open AccessGuido Schmidt‐Traub, Christian Kroll et al.ARTICLENature Geoscience2017

    The Sustainable Development Goals map out a broad spectrum of objectives. Analytical tools in form of the Index and Dashboards provide a starting point to set national baselines, and allow comparison of the SDGs with other indices of well-being. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — agreed in 2015 by all 193 member states of the United Nations and complemented by commitments made in the Paris Agreement — map out a broad spectrum of economic,…

  • Malaria ecology, child mortality & fertility

    Open AccessGordon C Mccord, D Conley et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2016

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D Sachs et al.BOOKThe age of sustainable development2015

    Jeffrey D. Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs explains how modern societies can develop economically, equitably, and sustainably.

  • From Cairo to Wall Street

    Jeffrey D Sachs, Joseph E Stiglitz et al.BOOKFrom Cairo to Wall Street2015

  • Million community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015

    Prabhjot Singh, Jeff Sachs et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2013

  • JFK and the future of global leadership

    Open AccessJeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEInternational Affairs2013

    On 10 June 1963 President John F. Kennedy gave a speech that changed the world. His commencement speech at American University helped to spur the signing of a world-changing agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States—the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. This episode of peacemaking is remarkable for two reasons. First, it arguably helped to save the world, since the nuclear confrontation at that stage of the Cold War was not a ‘stabl…

  • From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessJeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEThe Lancet2012

  • Rethinking Macroeconomics

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLECapitalism and Society2009Cited by: 1

  • Poverty, Aids and Hunger

    Open AccessAnne C Conroy, Anne Conroy et al.BOOKPoverty, AIDS and Hunger2006

    Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AI

  • Welfare States, Beyond Ideology

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEScientific American2006

  • The End of Poverty

    Richard N Cooper, Jeff Sachs et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2005Cited by: 134

  • The End of Poverty

    James Riedel, Jeff Sachs et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…2005Cited by: 28

    THE END OF POVERTY: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey D. Sachs, foreword by Bono New York: Penguin Press, 2005. xvii, 397pp, $40.00 doth (ISBN 1-59420-045-9)The title of this book is a bit misleading. It does not propose a strategy to end poverty, but instead to end extreme poverty in Africa. There is extreme poverty elsewhere in the third world, principally in South Asia, but most countries outside of Africa, even in South Asia, have g…

  • The Development Challenge

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEForeign Affairs2005Cited by: 3

  • The Challenges Facing Landlocked Developing Countries

    Michael L Faye, Michael Faye et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2004

    In spite of technological improvements in transport, landlocked developing countries continue to face structural challenges to accessing world markets. As a result, landlocked countries often lag behind their maritime neighbours in overall development and external trade. While the relatively poor performance of many landlocked countries can be attributed to distance from coast, this paper argues that several aspects of dependence on transit neigh…

  • How to Run the International Monetary Fund

    Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey D SachsARTICLEForeign Policy2004

  • The United States as a Coastal Nation

    Open AccessJordan Rappaport, Jeff Sachs et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Growth2003