Comments on: Millennium Villages: Moving the goalposts

By: Milleniumsdörfer, Update « Kantoos Economics

Milleniumsdörfer, Update « Kantoos Economics — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:15:04 +0000

[...] ist mir doch glatt der Aid Watch Eintrag entgangen, soll aber hier nachgeliefert werden. Darin heißt es In today’s new formulation, the [...]

By: Why is everyone always picking on Jeff Sachs? | Humanosphere

Why is everyone always picking on Jeff Sachs? | Humanosphere — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:45:22 +0000

[...] this, the wonks came out of the woodworks, cheering for more scrutiny of the MVP, calling out Sachs to meet them in the street and even suggesting conspiracy theories [...]

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Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:45:38 +0000

[...] trying to achieve, and how it will assess its success, judging by these latest posts from Aid Watch and Chris Blattman. Late news: an online petition to reschedule a cancelled debate between Sachs [...]

By: Sadder but Wiser

Sadder but Wiser — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:55:21 +0000

Excellent post. What’s most striking about the MVPs is not that they attracted initial enthusiasm–since almost any well-hyped idea can grab some uncrticial attention for a little while–but that anyone still takes them seriously. Development professionals needed little time to see that this was simply very old wine (practically vinegar, in fact) being repackaged in a glitzy new bottle with the then-trendy word “Millennium” attached. By now the mainstream media should also be catching on. By revealing the contradictory and constantly diminishing promises of MVP’s own promoters, this post should help hasten the day that the MVP concept is seen for what it is: simply another failed, top-down vanity project, unsupported by theory and roundly refuted by practice.

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Tweets that mention Millennium Villages: Moving the goalposts -- Topsy.com — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:40:56 +0000

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By: quicksilversurfer

quicksilversurfer — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:59:39 +0000

“In today’s new formulation, the MVP is a means to show that by spending an amount roughly equal to 100 percent of the village’s per capita income on already “proven” interventions, for a period of 10 years, it can allow that village, for at least one moment in time in 2015, to step across the finish line demarcated by the Millennium Development Goals.”
That says it all and it is honest!… But I bet it won’t be a “lesson learned” for Mr. Sachs…