"micro-macro paradox" meaning in English

See micro-macro paradox in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|!|head=micro-macro paradox}} micro-macro paradox (plural not attested)
  1. The paradox whereby aid agencies report the success of most of their programs, yet it is impossible to establish any significant correlation between aid and GDP growth in developing countries. Wikipedia link: micro-macro paradox Tags: no-plural
    Sense id: en-micro-macro_paradox-en-noun-xBtLZH-R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns with unattested plurals

Download JSON data for micro-macro paradox meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!",
        "head": "micro-macro paradox"
      },
      "expansion": "micro-macro paradox (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English nouns with unattested plurals",
          "parents": [
            "Nouns with unattested plurals",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The paradox whereby aid agencies report the success of most of their programs, yet it is impossible to establish any significant correlation between aid and GDP growth in developing countries."
      ],
      "id": "en-micro-macro_paradox-en-noun-xBtLZH-R",
      "links": [
        [
          "aid",
          "aid"
        ],
        [
          "agencies",
          "agency"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "program",
          "program"
        ],
        [
          "correlation",
          "correlation"
        ],
        [
          "GDP",
          "GDP"
        ],
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-plural"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "micro-macro paradox"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "micro-macro paradox"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!",
        "head": "micro-macro paradox"
      },
      "expansion": "micro-macro paradox (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unattested plurals"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The paradox whereby aid agencies report the success of most of their programs, yet it is impossible to establish any significant correlation between aid and GDP growth in developing countries."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aid",
          "aid"
        ],
        [
          "agencies",
          "agency"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "program",
          "program"
        ],
        [
          "correlation",
          "correlation"
        ],
        [
          "GDP",
          "GDP"
        ],
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-plural"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "micro-macro paradox"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "micro-macro paradox"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.