Using development goals and targets for donor agency performance measurement1

Targeting Development: Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 47-76

  White, Howard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84906128327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203403235     Document Type: Chapter

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