The UN is working on a follow up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The new agenda is to be adopted next year, which is the year in which the MDGs were supposed to be achieved. Though that will not happen comprehensively, the impact of the MDGs has been strong enough to attract broad-based public attention. It is obvious that the lessons of the MDG experience must be learned. While the MDGs focused on basic needs and disregarded issues of redistributing wealth, inequality is now becoming the focus of policy discourse. This is true at national and international levels.
