Readings

Readings
__**Overview: Extreme Poverty and Millennium** **Villages**__
 * Sachs, Jeffrey D. [|The End of Poverty.] Penguin Press: New York, 2005.
 * Sachs, Jeffrey D. and Gordon C. McCord. "Extreme Poverty." in //The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd. edition//. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2008.
 * Sachs, Jeffrey D., John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, Michael Faye and Gordon C. McCord. "[|Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap]" //Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.// 2004:1.
 * Sanchez, Pedro, et al. "[|The African Millennium Villages]" //Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences//. October 23, 2007. Vol. 104, No. 43.


 * __Agriculture__**
 * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 1996. "[|Special Feature: Crucial Role of Irrigation Development in Increasing Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa]." Africa Report 05/96. Rome.
 * UN Millennium Project. [|"Halving hunger: it can be done."] 2005


 * __Education__**
 * [|UN poverty plan ignites mass school enrolments in Ghana] Panapress, May 7, 2008.
 * [|UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality]


 * __Environment__**
 * International Food Policy Research Institute, [|Fish to 2020], Washington, 2003.
 * World Bank. [|World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World.]Washington, D.C.


 * __Health__**
 * //Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development//, [|Executive Summary]. Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, World Health Organization, December 2001.
 * UN Millennium Project. [|"Halving hunger: it can be done."] 2005.


 * __Infrastructure__**
 * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 1996. "[|Special Feature: Crucial Role of Irrigation Development in Increasing Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa]." Africa Report 05/96. Rome.
 * Starkey, Paul, and others. "[|Improving Rural Mobility--Options for Developing Motorized and Nonmotorized Transport in Rural Areas]." World Bank Technical Paper 525. Washington: World Bank, 2002.
 * UN Millennium Project. [|"Energy Services for the Millennium Development Goals."] 2005.
 * [|UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation]
 * World Bank Independent Evaluation Group. [|"The Welfare Impact of Rural Electrification."] 2008.


 * __Malaria__**
 * Curtis, Chris et al. [|"Scaling-up coverage with insecticide-treated nets against malaria in Africa: who should pay?"] //The Lancet: Infectious Diseases//, Vol. 3, No.5, May 1, 2003.
 * Teklehaimanot, Awash, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Chris Curtis. [|"Malaria Control Calls for Mass Distribution of Insecticidal Bednets."] //The Lancet//, June 21, 2007.
 * [|UN Millennium Project Working Group on Malaria]


 * __Rural Banking__**
 * Robinson, Marguerite. [|"Rural Financial Intermediation: Lessons from Indonesia."] Development Discussion Paper No. 434. Harvard Institute for International Development. October 1992.

**__Water__**

 * World Health Organization. 2004. [|"Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Links to Health: Facts and Figures."] Geneva.
 * [|UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation]
 * United Nations and World Water Assessment Programme. 2003. [|UN World Water Development Report: Water for People, Water for Life.]UNESCO.