Slides Now Available from Jeffrey Sachs Public Program

The Rockefeller Center was pleased to present the talk "“Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Still Time if We Try” with Jeffrey Sachs on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.  More than 450 people filled the main lecture hall and several overflow seating areas for the public program.  You can read more about the event in this article published in The Dartmouth.

Sachs encouraged targeted investments to help communities escape the poverty trap.  The following slides were part of his presentation, and have been made available with the speaker's permission.  Sachs closed his remarks with a quote from John F. Kennedy's 1963 speech at American University that can be found here.