A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Governance on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Implications for the Post-2015 Development Agenda (original) (raw)

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• Few dispute that good governance is critical to achieving international development goals such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But difficulties identifying what makes governance good often leads the international development community to recommend governance reforms that countries either find easy to ignore or struggle to take forward.

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