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A Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals
24 September 2008
As world leaders come together in New York for a UN high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, four members of the IDS Community discuss the history and progress of the MDGs and look at what happens after 2015.Joanna Glyde is a Communication Officer at the Institute of Development Studies
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