Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index - Working Paper 222

摘要: In this working paper, the authors introduce an MDG Progress Index to assess how on or off track countries are toward targets. They find evidence of dramatic achievements by many poor countries, such as Honduras, Laos, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ghana. These countries’ performance suggests that they may achieve most highly ambitious MDGs. Moreover, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for star performers. Interestingly, perform nearly par with middle-income countries. Not surprisingly, list laggards largely consists devastated conflict over last few decades, Afghanistan, Burundi, DRC, Guinea-Bissau. Most fall somewhere in between, demonstrating solid progress some indicators little others.