The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015

This interdisciplinary approach differs from previous Millennium Development Goal (MDG) studies that have either examined individual goals or made broad sociopolitical assessments of the MDGs as a development mechanism. Instead it uses the analysis of cross-cutting challenges as the basis to identify a set of principles for future goal development after 2015. It emphasizes that this is not an assessment of the MDGs and instead it focuses deliberately on challenges with the implementation of the MDGs so as to inform future goal setting.