Reproducing Inequalities through Development: The MDGs and the Politics of Method

Globalizations

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 660-676

  Weber, Heloise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

global development; inequality; Millennium Development Goals; politics of method; Sustainable Development Goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930909833     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2015.1039250     Document Type: Article

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