Debating the impact of Millenium Villages

Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development has posted a wrap-up of the fierce debate underway about a key United Nations anti-poverty program and its impact: The Millennium Villages Project, now underway in villages across Africa, is a keystone of United Nations efforts against global poverty. For years there has been a largely behind-the-scenes ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development has posted a wrap-up of the fierce debate underway about a key United Nations anti-poverty program and its impact:

Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development has posted a wrap-up of the fierce debate underway about a key United Nations anti-poverty program and its impact:

The Millennium Villages Project, now underway in villages across Africa, is a keystone of United Nations efforts against global poverty. For years there has been a largely behind-the-scenes debate about how that project is evaluating its impacts. In the past week that debate suddenly heated up. A lot.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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