All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the … - Jeffrey Sachs

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Jeffrey Sachs

All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing. ' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.

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