Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health to Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Health Organization
“…let me say that I hope we keep our voice clear and strong on the central task of raising the health of the poor. I can be ‘realistic’ and ‘cynical’ with the best of them—giving all the reasons why things are too hard to change. We must dream a bit, not beyond the feasible but to the limits of the feasible, so that we inspire. I think that we are an important voice speaking on behalf of the world’s most voiceless people today—the sick and dying among the poorest of the poor. The stakes are high. Let’s, therefore, speak boldly so that we can feel confident that we have fulfilled our task as well as possible.”
Taken by the editor from emailed correspondence from Jeffrey Sachs to the Commissioners and others working on this effort.
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/pe/PEAMMarch2005/CMHReport.pdf