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Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and former World Bank economist, said that the main contribution of the MDGs was that they helped to focus development discussions around some key issues and gave a renewed purpose to aid.
"That probably helped reverse the shift towards the decline in aid in the 1990s as well as moving more money into social sectors," Kenny said. "That may have helped spur marginally faster improvements in areas like child health and education.
"But 'marginally faster' at the global level can mean millions of people living better lives and hundreds of thousands fewer dying - that's a big accomplishment."
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