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Projecting Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals

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  • Howard White
  • Nina Blöndal

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The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming conclusions from such analyses are not positive. The goals will not be met.

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  • Howard White & Nina Blöndal, 2007. "Projecting Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-47, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Keywords

    Education; Equality and inequality; Health; Poverty;
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    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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