In Jeffrey Sachs recent book (The End of Poverty), he
goes into a lot of detail about how much money (from all countries) is
necessary to reduce, and then, end world poverty. Clinton might have
gotten his numbers from there.
As for the U.S. budget numbers, the Statistical Abstract
online should have it.
Evan Cooper
Clinton acknowledges Sachs on the show, so that's fairly likely.
For me, the value of the show was that it gave no credence to the idea that global poverty is a technical or financial problem--the money is there, the technology is there. Since there always seems to be a student or two insisting that limitations in those factors WOULD prevent a solution, I may show a bit of the program to my classes.
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