From universal values to Millennium Development Goals: Lost in translation

Development and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1167-1199

  Saith, Ashwani ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EID: 33751537679     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2006.00518.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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