Millennium Development Goals
What should follow the Millennium Development Goals? Adopted at a global summit in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent a global compact between rich and poor countries to improve the lives of the world’s poorest people. All 191 UN member states agreed to pursue goals that include reducing extreme poverty, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, and reducing infant mortality. As the 2015 end date of the Goals approaches, how much progress has the World made? And what should replace them, setting the global development agenda for the next fifteen years? Recent CGD research provides perspectives on the successes and failures of the original MDGs and the controversy around their replacement:
- What’s Wrong with the MDGs (CGD Brief), by Michael Clemens and Todd Moss
- MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe? (CGD Working Paper, by Jonathan Karver, Charles Kenny, and Andy Sumner)
- Energizing Rio+20: How the United States Can Promote Sustainable Energy for All at the 2012 Earth Summit (CGD Brief, by Nigel Purvis and Abigail Jones)
- More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? (CGD Working Paper, by Charles Kenny and Andy Sumner)
- MDG Progress Index 2011: The Good (Country Progress), the Bad (Slippage), and the Ugly (Fickle Data) (by Ben Leo and Ross Thuotte)
- The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries? (CGD Brief, by Andy Sumner)
- A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education (CGD Working Paper, by Deon Filmer, Amer Hasan and Lant Pritchett)
What should follow the Millennium Development Goals? Adopted at a global summit in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent a global compact between rich and poor countries to improve the lives of the world’s poorest people. All 191 UN member states agreed to pursue goals that include reducing extreme poverty, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, and reducing infant mortality. As the 2015 end date of the Goals approaches, how much progress has the World made? And what should replace them, setting the global development agenda for the next fifteen years? Recent CGD research provides perspectives on the successes and failures of the original MDGs and the controversy around their replacement:
- What’s Wrong with the MDGs (CGD Brief), by Michael Clemens and Todd Moss
- MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe? (CGD Working Paper, by Jonathan Karver, Charles Kenny, and Andy Sumner)
- Energizing Rio+20: How the United States Can Promote Sustainable Energy for All at the 2012 Earth Summit (CGD Brief, by Nigel Purvis and Abigail Jones)
- More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? (CGD Working Paper, by Charles Kenny and Andy Sumner)
- MDG Progress Index 2011: The Good (Country Progress), the Bad (Slippage), and the Ugly (Fickle Data) (by Ben Leo and Ross Thuotte)
- The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries? (CGD Brief, by Andy Sumner)
- A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education (CGD Working Paper, by Deon Filmer, Amer Hasan and Lant Pritchett)
