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Jeffrey D. Sachs Honored by the Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
More than 650 guests gathered in Chicago at the Seventh Annual Sargent Shriver Awards Dinner on December 1, 2005 to honor Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, for his leadership in the fight against extreme poverty. The Shriver National Center on Poverty Law also honored documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock for…
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A Meeting with the Honorable Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh
On July 1, 2005, Nirupam Bajpai, Senior Development Adviser and Director of the South Asia Program at the Center on Globalization & Sustainable Development (CGSD), met with the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi to discuss how The Earth Institute can help India expand the delivery of needed services to rural…