Identifying Synergies and Complementarities Between MDGs: Results from Cluster Analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 647-670

  Lo Bue, Maria Carmela ^a   Klasen, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Developing countries; Human development; Millennium Development Goals

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 84881024253     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0294-y     Document Type: Article

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