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• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets

  Feedbacks in the economic network can turn local crises into global ones

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Dec 22, 2008  | 6

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  How to Fix the U.S. Financial Crisis

  Policies can avert disaster only if they interrupt the cascading threats to the U.S. economy

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Oct 3, 2008  | 67

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  Why the Oil Crisis Will Persist [Extended Version]

  With global demand for cars accelerating, the best approach is to redesign cars and transport systems

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Sep 22, 2008  | 28

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  Are Malthus's Predicted 1798 Food Shortages Coming True? (Extended version)

  It remains to be seen whether his famously gloomy prediction is truly wrong or merely postponed

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Aug 25, 2008  | 22

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  Africa Needs More Funds to Deliver U.N.'s Goals by 2015 Deadline (Extended version)

  Overdue investments from rich nations could still transform Africa by 2015

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Jul 29, 2008  | 3

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  Africa Needs More Funds to Deliver U.N.'s Goals by 2015 Deadline

  Overdue investments from rich nations could still transform Africa by 2015

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Jul 29, 2008  | 2

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Is the U.N. Deadline on Curing Malaria Wishful Thinking?

  The challenge of controlling the disease in Africa by 2010 is fundamentally organizational, not technical

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Jul 22, 2008  | 3

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  A Deadline on Malaria (Extended version)

  The challenge of controlling the disease in Africa by 2010 is fundamentally organizational, not technical

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Jun 25, 2008  | 7

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  Surging Food Prices Mean Global Instability

  Misguided policies favor biofuels over grain for hungry people.

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | May 19, 2008  | 17

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  The African Green Revolution

  The continent is overdue for an agricultural boon like the one that lifted Asia's prospects

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Apr 22, 2008  | 7

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  The African Green Revolution (Extended version)

  The continent is overdue for an agricultural boon like the one that lifted Asia's prospects

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Apr 21, 2008  | 3

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Technological Keys to Climate Protection

  Dramatic, immediate commitment to nurturing new technologies is essential to averting disastrous global warming

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Mar 18, 2008  | 9

• Web Exclusives |  Energy & Sustainability

  Keys to Climate Protection (Extended version)

  Dramatic, immediate commitment to nurturing new technologies is essential to averting disastrous global warming

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Mar 18, 2008  | 9

• Web Exclusives |  Energy & Sustainability

  Climate Change after Bali (Extended Version)

  Do the math: affordable new technologies can allow us to control global warming at modest cost while maintaining global economic growth

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Feb 19, 2008  | 14

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Climate Change after Bali

  Do the math: affordable new technologies can prevent global warming while fostering growth

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Feb 18, 2008  | 1

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Crisis in the Drylands

  Sound economic solutions, not military ones, offer the most reliable route to peace for undeveloped nations

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Jan 17, 2008  | 11

• Scientific American Magazine |  Health

  Primary Health for All

  Ten resolutions could globally ensure a basic human right at almost unnoticeable cost

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Dec 16, 2007  | 7

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  Primary Health for All (Extended version)

  Ten key actions could globally ensure a basic human right at almost unnoticeable cost

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Dec 16, 2007  | 3

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Meaningful Goals for Climate Talks

  Step-by-step advances, not grand gestures, offer the most realistic way to control greenhouse gases

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Nov 19, 2007  | 1

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Climate Change and the Law (Extended edition)

  Even the Bush administration has started to recognize U.S. legal obligations to fight global warming

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Oct 14, 2007  

• Scientific American Magazine |  Energy & Sustainability

  Climate Change and the Law

  Even the Bush administration has started to recognize U.S. legal obligations to fight global warming

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Oct 14, 2007  

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  Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa (extended version)

  One of the world's worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Sep 18, 2007  | 3

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  Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa

  One of the world's worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Sep 16, 2007  | 2

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  Breaking the Poverty Trap (extended version)

  Targeted investments can trump a region's geographic disadvantages

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Aug 19, 2007  | 2

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  Breaking the Poverty Trap

  Targeted investments can trump a region's geographic disadvantages

  By Jeffrey D. Sachs   | Aug 19, 2007  

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