Sachs, Jeffrey. The end of poverty: economic possibilities for our time. 1ª edición, New York: The Penguin Press, 2005.

“When I speak of the “end of poverty”, therefor, I will be speaking of two closely related objetives. The first is to end the plight of one sixth of humanity that lives in extreme poverty and struggles daily for survival. Everybody on Earth can and should enjoy basic standards of nutrition , health water and sanitation, shelter and other minimum needs for survival, well –being, and participation in society. The second is to ensure that all of the world`s poor, including those in moderate poverty, have a chance to climb the ladder of development. As a global society, we agement do not advertenly or inadvertenly set snares along the lower rungs of the ladder in the form of inadequate development assistance, protectionist trade barriers, destabilizing global finacial practices, poorly designed rules for intellectual property, and the like, that prevente the low- income world from climbing up the rungs of development.”