The Inter Press Service quotes CGD research fellow Michael Clemens and CGD non-resident fellow William Easterly on the Millennium Development Goals.
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"A growth rate of seven percent, called for by the panel, would place African countries among the top tenth of all 10-year GDP growth rates recorded worldwide since 1965, the study said.
'You're asking Africa to do something that is almost historically unprecedented,' Easterly said. 'This is a good way to take success and call it failure.'
What is needed instead is 'a descriptive model of positive change' in Africa, said Michael Clemens, a research fellow at the Centre for Global Development, which co-sponsored Wednesday's research seminar."
