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	<title>State of the Planet &#187; Jeffrey Sachs</title>
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	<description>Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better.</description>
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		<title>Breakthrough in Saving Lives in Rural Africa</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/17/breakthrough-in-saving-lives-in-rural-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/17/breakthrough-in-saving-lives-in-rural-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="110" src="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Sachs-with-CHW-Rokia-P1030998-2-150x110.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs meets with Rokia, a community health worker in the Tiby Millennium Village in Mali." />It's mid-morning in the Tiby Millennium Village in Mali. Rokia, a community health worker, sits with a young mother in a spare courtyard of the household. Gently she asks the key questions. ]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges at the Cutting Edge of Fighting Global Poverty</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/13/challenges-at-the-cutting-edge-of-fighting-global-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/13/challenges-at-the-cutting-edge-of-fighting-global-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poverty / Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Villages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Millennium Village Project (MVP) was launched in 2005-6 in order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in the poorest regions of rural Africa. A dozen clusters of villages around Africa have adopted bold and novel strategies to overcome poverty, hunger, and disease. Halfway through the ten-year project, the results are very exciting: [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/13/challenges-at-the-cutting-edge-of-fighting-global-poverty/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Goals, Five Years to Go</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/20/millennium-goals-five-years-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/20/millennium-goals-five-years-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poverty / Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN MDG Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=6664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="110" src="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/maize_Mbola-150x110.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Maize harvest, Mbola Tanzania" />As 140 heads of state and government gather Monday at the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals summit, they and the public will ask what has come out of this decade-long effort. The answer will surprise them ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding Haiti: The 10-Year Plan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/26/rebuilding-haiti-the-10-year-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/26/rebuilding-haiti-the-10-year-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty / Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold. The quake itself killed perhaps 100,000 people. The inability to organize rapid relief is killing tens of thousands more. More than 1 million people are exposed to hunger and disease and, with the rain and hurricane seasons approaching, are vulnerable to further hazards. Even an economy as [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/26/rebuilding-haiti-the-10-year-plan/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Help Haiti Recover</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/20/how-to-help-haiti-recover/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/20/how-to-help-haiti-recover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seismology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has declared that the United States will not forsake Haiti in its moment of agony. Honoring this commitment would be a first for Washington. To prevent a deepening spiral of death, the United States will have to do things differently than in the past. American relief and development institutions do not function properly, [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/20/how-to-help-haiti-recover/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen: The False “Victory”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/22/copenhagen-the-false-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/22/copenhagen-the-false-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copenhagen climate conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years of climate change negotiations have now ended in a farce in Copenhagen. Rather than grappling with complex issues, President Barack Obama decided instead to declare victory with a vague statement of principles agreed with four other countries. The remaining 187 were handed a fait accompli , which some accepted and others denounced. After the fact, the United Nations has argued that the document was generally accepted, though for most on a take-it-or-leave-it basis [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to Hold the Rich to Their Word</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/16/how-to-hold-the-rich-to-their-word/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/16/how-to-hold-the-rich-to-their-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copenhagen climate conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With less than three days remaining in the Copenhagen climate talks, the rich have finally begun to discuss climate financing for the poor. The negotiating round has gone on for two years with little serious discussion on financing and many other topics, a gaping failure of a process run by and for rich-country politicians who do not like to be bothered with unpleasant details. This will not do [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>End the Politics. Let Scientists and Engineers Lead.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/03/end-the-politics-let-scientists-and-engineers-lead/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/03/end-the-politics-let-scientists-and-engineers-lead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen 2009]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can only marvel at the disarray. Here we are, 17 years after the signing of the UN framework convention on climate change, two years after the decision in Bali to agree a new climate policy, one year after Barack Obama's election, and days out from the Copenhagen conference. Yet a real global strategy to avoid catastrophe remains elusive.

Yes, there is some progress. The Obama  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/04/06/the-geithner-summers-plan-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/04/06/the-geithner-summers-plan-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I posted an article showing how the Geithner-Summers banking plan could potentially and unnecessarily transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to banks. The same basic arithmetic was later described by Joseph Stiglitz in the New York Times (April 1) and by Peyton Young in the Financial Times (April [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/04/06/the-geithner-summers-plan-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Next G-20 Meeting is a Chance to Help Three Billion Living in Poverty</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/03/20/3-billion-poor-need-worlds-help/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/03/20/3-billion-poor-need-worlds-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Sachs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty / Economic Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The G-20 meeting in London, England, on April 2 will be watched by the entire world with urgency and with a yearning for hope, vision and programmatic clarity. The preparatory work is not adequate. The G-20 discussions do not move sufficiently beyond financial regulation. I would like to suggest the following main points for G-20 [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/03/20/3-billion-poor-need-worlds-help/">...</a>]]]></description>
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