The New York Times selected Jeffrey Sachs as “the world’s most important economist.”
He is more famous in Korea for his strong criticism of the high interest rate policy prescribed by the IMF during the 1997 foreign exchange crisis, but in the United States, he is called one of the "three superstars of economics" along with Lawrence Summers and Paul Krugman.


Absolute poverty, which affects one-sixth of the world's population, means that they are deprived of the economic benefits necessary for survival, let alone human dignity.
Moreover, poverty, defined as living on less than $1 a day, has become a complex situation over the decades, making it difficult to find a solution.
Jeffrey Sachs closely analyzes poverty in the Third World to find practical solutions.


Chronic stagnation in growth due to hunger, disease, and low levels of education makes it difficult for poor countries to accumulate the capital necessary to build self-reliance.
Therefore, the author argues in this book that these countries can climb the ladder of self-reliance only by breaking the chains of poverty as quickly as possible through intensive and complex prescriptions.
In this book, the author explores what human values ​​humanity must protect together and what economic practices are necessary to achieve them.