MDG efficiency called into question – Time for a change?

The management of the chosen MDGs under their present leadership, which has been in place for almost a decade, has been accused of engaging in a technocratic pursuit of increased demands for aid flows, and advocating programs regardless of governance constraints and local contexts—an approach that has obviously hindered the effective pursuit of even the chosen MDG goals. From the beginning, critics of the MDGs have asked, why these specific MDGs and not other, possibly more desirable, targets? Professor Jagdish Bhagwati examines the misled priorities and suitability of the uniform nature seen in the Millennium Development Goals.

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