How the Millenium Goals are Unfair to Africa
William Easterly
Economics Department, New York University
World Development
Published: 2009
Thos involved in the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) campaign routinely state "Africa will miss all the MDG's." This paper will argues that a series of arbitrary choices made in defining "success" or "failure" as achieving numerical targets for the Millenium Development Goals made attainment of the MDGs less likely in Africathan in other regions even when its progress was in line with historical or contemporary experience of other regions. The statement that "Africa will miss all the MDGs" thus paints and unfairly bleak portrait of Africa.
