No end to poverty
批评了Jeffrey Sachs的《贫困的终结》一书，指出其聚焦绝对贫困和消除贫困的方案存在困难，并讨论了相对贫困概念、伦理基础、发展阶梯、国家与个人、地理与历史理解、社会文化维度、援助吸收能力及“终结贫困”说法的危害。
Abstract This commentary is designed to provide a critique of Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen In Our Lifetime, highlighting in particular the difficulties that arise from his focus on absolute poverty and his proposed recipe for its elimination. It begins by emphasising the many strengths of Sachs' arguments, but then suggests that these could usefully be tempered by greater attention to relative conceptualisations of poverty and the ethical grounds upon which his arguments are based. Six main issues are subsequently addressed: his use of the notion of a ladder of development; his concentration on countries rather than people; his understandings of geography and of history; his relative lack of attention to social and cultural dimensions of development; the inability of poor countries to absorb the levels of aid that he proposes; and the damage caused by suggesting that it is indeed possible to end poverty.