An Immeasurable Crisis? A Criticism of the Millennium Development Goals and Why They Cannot Be Measured
Open Access
- 13 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (10), e318
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020318
Abstract
Attaran argues that five years into the Millenium Development Goals project, problems with measurement mean that often we cannot know if true progress towards these goals is occurring.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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