The Financial Times quotes CGD research fellow Michael Clemens on the Millennium Development Goals.
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"Michael Clemens, a research fellow for the Center for Global Development think-tank in Washington, says that the goals risk labelling countries as failures despite their making big strides. 'It took a century in the US to go from getting 30-40 per cent of children in primary education to 100 per cent, and yet we are expecting the likes of Burkina Faso, which has increased enrolment rapidly, to do it in seven,' he says. 'Kids get put in school when their parents become richer and better-educated, not when bureaucrats in the ministry of education are publicly shamed by international targets.'"
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