How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-35

  Easterly, William ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; foreign aid; human development; millennium development goals; poverty

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; INTERNATIONAL AID; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POVERTY DETERMINANT;

AFRICA;

EID: 56949105326     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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