Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2012 - Rev. February 2012
Most numerical targets within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are overly ambitious for the … and ownership and jeopardizes the public support the MDGs have drawn in the past. This paper proposes an alternative … approach to evaluating progress towards non-income MDGs that allows a sensible appraisal of countries' progress. We first …