What is ‘The Millennium Villages Project’?
Jeffrey Sachs
Director of The Earth Institute, Professor, Author
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About the video: ‘What is ‘The Millennium Villages Project’?’
The Millennium Villages Project, run by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up approach to lifting villages in the developing world out of the poverty trap – a trap affecting more than a billion people globally. The project currently works with two villages in Africa, one in Kenya and another in Ethiopia. It aims to illustrate how targeted investments in basic infrastructure, health, education and agriculture can set impoverished communities on the path to development. Sachs describes how the project works, how results are measured and how a combined set of interventions such as these can greatly improve the lives of the poor.
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Filmed: New York City, USA on 1 March 2005
Credits: The Earth Institute
Copyright © 2005 The Earth Institute
About Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He was recently named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the world. He is the author of “The End of Poverty”(2005).
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