Jeffrey D. Sachs

1 week ago | popularresistance.org | Jeffrey D. Sachs

Above photo: The Allée des Nations in front of the Palace of Nations, United Nations HQ in Geneva. Tom Page/Wikimedia Commons. The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.

1 week ago | scheerpost.com | Jeffrey D. Sachs

By Jeffrey D. Sachs / Other NewsWriting in his cell as political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”  A century later, we are in another interregnum, and the morbid symptoms are everywhere. The US-led order has ended, but the multipolar world is not yet born.

1 week ago | libratus.online | Jeffrey D. Sachs

Die multipolare Welt wird entstehen, wenn das geopolitische Gewicht Asiens, Afrikas und Lateinamerikas ihrem wachsenden wirtschaftlichen Gewicht entspricht. Diese notwendige geopolitische Verschiebung hat sich verzögert, da die USA und Europa an überholten Vorrechten, die in internationalen Institutionen verankert sind, und an ihren überholten Denkweisen festhalten.

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Jeffrey D. Sachs

CORRESPONDENCE 08 April 2025 The US government has long dragged its feet on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since these goals were adopted in 2015, 190 of the 193 United Nations member states have put forward Voluntary National Reviews of their SDG programmes. The United States has not.

2 weeks ago | unsdsn.org | Jeffrey D. Sachs |Guillaume Lafortune

This piece originally appeared as Correspondence in Nature. Read the accompanying working paper. The US government has long dragged its feet on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since these goals were adopted in 2015, 190 of the 193 United Nations member states have put forward Voluntary National Reviews of their SDG programmes. The United States has not.