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

UN Millennium Project; HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on poverty; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on education; INTERNATIONAL obligations; UNITED Nations; INTERNATIONAL cooperation

The article presents a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations (UN) after 2015. It presents a brief introduction to the MDGs that cover health, poverty, and education, as well as a cross-cutting comparison of MDGs 1 to 7. It identifies the common challenges facing the MDGs and use such challenges to create and illustrate five principles for future development goal setting. The article also emphasizes the need to build future goals on a shared vision of development.