U.N. Millennium Villages-Potemkin villages?

...the architects of the Millennium Villages need to stop overstating their development impact, and heed the calls by economists like Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development to learn more through careful evaluations. Until then, these places still appear less like the model villages of the new millennium, and more like the Potemkin villages of the last millennium: Russian towns built like theatrical sets, with large fires that glowed in the distance to portray improved economic activity.