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Part 1 of four
Eight goals with deadlines
Eight goals, twenty-one targets and sixty indicators, agreed in 2000 and closed in 2015 — and the argument about what a countable list leaves out.
4 pieces in this part
- Eight goals with deadlinesThe MDGs ran from 2000 to 2015 and were the first time the field agreed on a short numbered list with dates attached.Read →
- What a target does to a programmeA measured target gets managed and an unmeasured one does not, which is the central criticism and also the central point.Read →
- The baseline problemProgress against 1990 was calculated for goals agreed in 2000, which decided how much of the achievement was already banked.Read →
- What was left outInequality within countries, governance and environment sat awkwardly with a short list of countable things.Read →
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