Targeting aid to benefit the poorest 20% of people in developing countries
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were an unprecedented international agreement to pursue global progress on poverty eradication and social measures. The emerging post-2015 development agenda presents a vision that is broader, more holistic and more ambitious. The Sustainable Development Goals aim to complete the ‘unfinished business’ of MDG targets that were not met, move beyond ‘half way’ targets to get to zero on extreme poverty, and seek progress across all three dimensions of sustainable development: social, economic and environmental.