Senior fellow Michael Clemens was mentioned in an AllAfrica.com article on the Millennium Villages Project.
From the Article
The Millennium Villages Project has launched its second phase, alongside a report stating that it is on track to enable people living in impoverished communities in Sub-Saharan Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
But experts tracking the initiative's progress have questioned whether the project will be financially viable in the long term.
The project started in 2006 as the brainchild of Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, United States and former director of the UN Millennium Project. It aims to show how 'research villages' in ten African countries can achieve the MDGs and disseminate sustainable skills and knowledge.
The second phase, 2011-2015, was launched last week (3 October) with more than US$72 million in new pledges. It will focus on business development aimed at making communities self-sufficient by the time the project ends, and on scaling up interventions and achievements to the rest of rural Africa, by working with African governments.