Jeffry Sachs has a goal: to end poverty in Africa by 2025, and according to Nina Munk, he is convinced that this can easily be done. Yet Munk's account of what has come of the Millennium Village Projects , (Sachs's brain child) tells of yet another foreign intervention in Africa that has left a lot to be desired, (at least up to date). The Millennium Villages were constructed by Sachs to be incubators of success in often failing contexts. Munk writes of a man fired up with infectious energy and a strong conviction that in five short years each Millennium Village could become a harbinger of hope and a model to be scaled up. The author writes that she had initially been assigned to spend 6 months following Sachs and reporting on the progress made by MVP but ended up spending about 6 years. She was eager to hear what Sachs had to say about how per capita incomes in Africa could be improved. Her objective was to trace the flow of aid money during which journey...
Economics, Data Science, Consulting