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Columbia’s Jeffrey Sachs Proposes Coffee Fund to Help Poor Farmers

By Jeffrey T. Lewis

WSJ

CAMPINAS, Brazil—The world’s coffee farmers are suffering because of low prices on global markets, but a fund investing $10 billion a year in helping the poorest improve efficiency and increasing their access to health care and education would boost their standard of living, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs said Wednesday.