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With the approaching 2015 target year of the UN Millennium Declaration, this paper compares the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) framework that emerged from the Declaration with other ways of measuring and incentivising progress. It sets out some initial hypotheses about its impact and addresses issues about its structure and coverage. The author proposes how to get the best value from the MDGs over the years to 2015 and lists five hypotheses about how the world might approach the issue of what framework, if any, to put in place to measure development progress after 2015.