News Headline
Sweating the small things
Source
Science Magazine
Publication Date
2019-03-01
Matt Bonds was young and idealistic when, as a postdoc, he set out with economist Jeffrey Sachs, a rock star in the development world, in his quest to end poverty. But the Millennium Villages Project on which they worked—a package of interventions from seeds to schools to clinics designed to improve livelihoods and health in impoverished African villages—came under withering criticism, including for a research design that made it impossible to gauge the project's impact.