As 2015 approaches, debate among global development scholars and
practitioners is turning to what should succeed the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), a topic explored on CFR’s Development
Channel earlier this fall. Among the contributions to the debate
so far is a thoughtful report recently released by Canada’s
Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Korea
Development Institute. Several members of the team behind this
effort visited the Council on Foreign Relations this week, where
they discussed their report at an event hosted by my colleague
Stewart Patrick, director of CFR’s International Institutions
and Global Governance program. (Stewart also wrote a blog post
about the report yesterday.) The report, “Post-2015 Development
Agenda: Goals, Targets, and Indicators,” is a comprehensive and
detailed discussion of eleven potential new goals. Some focus on
standard social and economic concerns, such as economic growth,
food and water, and education and skills, with a useful emphasis
on human