Development Drums Episode 42: The Idealist (Nina Munk on Jeff Sachs)

 

Development Drums is Owen Barder's podcast about international development and global poverty.

Nina Munk’s latest book, The Idealist, is about Jeffrey Sachs and the Millennium Villages Project. It is also a book about the efforts that people in industrialised countries make to help poor people. It is a book about vision, passion and hubris.

In this episode of Development Drums, Nina Munk tells the story of how she came to write the book, and what she learned about Jeff Sachs, and about development aid, as she did so.