[PEN-L:290] FW: FW: Sachs's G-16 proposal (Who is J. Sachs?)

["Arno Mong Daastøl" <arnomd@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent:	Monday, September 21, 1998 9:54 PM
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Subject:	Re: FW: Sachs's G-16 proposal (Who is J. Sachs?)

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:19:03 +0200 "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Arno_Mong_Daastøl?="
<arnomd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Jonathan Larson has supplied this interesting background for Jeffrey
>Sachs' >new policies.
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Over a couple of weeks ago Sachs was on NPR's The Chris Lydon Show to give
his mea culpae.  He admitted to making various errors but he also went on to
claim that he had been misunderstood.  And it appears that the list of
people who misunderstood him is quite a long one which includes among others
IMF officials, the Russians, and his various academic colleagues and critics
including especially Marshall Goldman.  This assertion puzzled me because
after all Sachs is a Harvard professor and presumably therefore a skilled
communicator.  He also went on to describe the corruption of the Yeltsin
government and he made it clear that it goes all the way to the very top and
he criticized the IMF and the US government for having ignored it until it
was too late.  He blamed the oligarchs for sabotaging market reforms and for
hijacking them to serve their own selfish interests.
If someone can get a hold of a transcript of Chris Lydon's interview of
Sachs it might be interesting to post it on this list.
Jim Farmelant

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