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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; John McArthur</title>
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	<description>Extreme Poverty Ends Here</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Evaluating the Millennium Villages: A response to Clemens and Demombynes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Pronyk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s aims and evaluation methods.  We respond briefly here, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/31/low-cost-thrills-in-millennium-village-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he had the opportunity to meet with local community members first hand and to see and hear about how they are pursuing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a very practical day-to-day reality. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Important Lessons for Global Academic Innovation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/18/some-important-lessons-for-global-academic-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/18/some-important-lessons-for-global-academic-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Master's in Development Practice]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced more than $5 million in grants to help ten universities establish cross-disciplinary Master&#8217;s in Development Practice (MDP) degree programs in eight countries around the world. These add to the $10 million in grants that the foundation allocated last year to seed MDP programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakthrough Village Results for Integrated Rural Needs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/03/12/breakthrough-village-results-for-integrated-rural-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/03/12/breakthrough-village-results-for-integrated-rural-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya. The article by Jeffrey Gettleman highlights the community&#8217;s remarkable progress in food security, education, health, and income-generation. Crucially, these integrated gains towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been achieved through a very modest budget, with only $60 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging new MDG commitments at Davos</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/02/01/encouraging-new-mdg-commitments-at-davos/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/02/01/encouraging-new-mdg-commitments-at-davos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with a number of partners, my main objective at Davos last week was to help ensure the global challenges of extreme poverty and the Millennium Development Goals received as much practical attention as possible.
There were a number of highlights.  One was Bill and Melinda Gates&#8217; extraordinary Friday announcement of $10 billion to support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A People&#8217;s Plan of Action to fight extreme poverty</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/01/28/a-peoples-plan-of-action-to-fight-extreme-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/01/28/a-peoples-plan-of-action-to-fight-extreme-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: The following originally appeared on The Huffington Post on January 28th, 2010
By Johann O. Koss, CEO and President of Right to Play &#038; John W. McArthur, CEO of Millennium Promise
Government leaders cannot solve global challenges on their own any more. In today&#8217;s much flatter world, it is everyday people &#8211;and, critically, their personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Millennium Promise Partners&#8217; Meeting, Obama &amp; the MDG&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/09/25/the-millennium-promise-partners-meeting-obama-the-mdgs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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This has been a terrific week for Millennium Promise, for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and – most importantly – for the hopes of communities and families living in extreme poverty around the world. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly. In conveying his administration&#8217;s vision leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Approach to Global Problem-Solving</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/07/13/a-new-approach-to-global-problem-solving/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/07/13/a-new-approach-to-global-problem-solving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s G8 Summit underscored the extent to which leaders around the world are straining to manage a flood of concurrent crises. Amidst the news flashes from Kabul, Pyongyang and Tehran, the global undertow of economic, social and environment challenges is equally if not more profound. The economic crisis is pushing unemployment to forgotten heights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some New Educational Initiatives Around the World</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/07/01/some-new-educational-initiatives-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/07/01/some-new-educational-initiatives-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a posting on the Global Brief blog, Millennium Promise CEO John McArthur writes about two promising educational programs which focus on developing young leaders who can help build a brighter future for those in extreme poverty.
Two events yesterday prompted me to feel encouraged about progress in the education of future socially minded leaders around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking the Claims of African Regress</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/15/debunking-the-claims-of-african-regress/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/15/debunking-the-claims-of-african-regress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent public debates have re-focused public attention on Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development over the past few decades. Many pundits are driving this with rhetoric suggesting there has been a long-term decline in living standards throughout Africa. But the facts show that this is simply not the case.
In a recent post on the Global Brief blog [...]]]></description>
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