The Millennium Development Goals and development after 2015

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-198

  Poku, Nana K ^a   Whitman, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC PLANNING; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 79951890298     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2011.543823     Document Type: Article

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