Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Posted by Paul Pronyk, Jeffrey Sachs & Prabhjot Singh | Oct 23, 2011
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As the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Centre for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, I thought I might offer some reflections to this vigorous discussion around the optimal methods for evaluating the Millennium Villages project.
Posted by Paul Pronyk, John McArthur, Prabhjot Singh & Jeffrey Sachs | Oct 13, 2010
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Agriculture • Business Development • Education • Health • Infrastructure • Millennium Development Goals • Millennium Villages Project
To download this article as a PDF, please click HERE. The discussion around evaluating large-scale development projects is an important one. Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes offer a critique of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) and its research methods. Their paper misunderstands the MVP's aims and evaluation methods. We respond briefly here, to clarify some of those basic misunderstandings about the project's goals and approaches to evaluation. 1. Goals of the Millennium Villages Project The MVP is a ten-year project running through 2015, the deadline year for the Millennium Development . . . [more]
Posted by John McArthur & Jeffrey Sachs | May 27, 2009
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Millennium Development Goals • Millennium Villages Project
Ms. Dambisa Moyo's recent Huffington Post article exposes the confusions that underlie her slashing attacks on aid. Most importantly, she seems to believe that sub-Saharan Africa was economically prosperous and then was pushed into poverty by aid. She makes the following statement: "No surprise, then, that Africa is on the whole worse off today than it was 40 years ago. For example in the 1970's less than 10 percent of Africa's population lived in dire poverty -- today over 70 percent of sub-Saharan Africa lives on less than US$2 a day." Let's parse that statement for a moment. World . . . [more]
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