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A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to get rid of global poverty "The poor you will always have to you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs - celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary Standard of the US, and author of the important best vendor The End of Poverty - disagrees. In his view, poverty is issues that may be solved. With single-minded perseverance he has attemptedto put into practice his theories about closing extreme poverty, to show that the world's most destitute people can be raised onto "the ladder of development." In 2006, Sachs launched the Millennium Villages Task, a daring five-year experiment designed to test his theories in Africa. The first Millennium village was at Sauri, a distant cluster of farming communities in traditional western Kenya. The initial results were motivating. With his first tastes of success, and guaranteed by 120 million dollars from George Soros and other likeminded donors, Sachs rolled out a dozen model villages in ten sub-Saharan countries. Once his procedure was validated it might be scaled up across the entire continent. At least that was the idea. For the past six years, Nina Munk has reported deeply on the Millennium Villages Task, associated Sachs on his recognized outings to Africa and listening in on conversations with heads-of-state, humanitarian organizations, rival economists, and development experts. She has immersed herself in the lives of individuals in two Millennium villages: Ruhiira, in southwest Uganda, and Dertu, in the arid borderland between Kenya and Somalia. Recognizing the hospitality of camel herders and small-hold farmers, and witnessing their battle to survive, Munk emerged to comprehend the real-life conditions that challenge Sachs's solution for closing global poverty. The Idealist is the profound and moving account of what happens when the abstract theories of an excellent, driven man meet up with the reality of individual life.
