The Culmination of the MDG’s: A New Arena of the Sustainable Development Goals

Established in 2000;the Millennium Development Goals had played a major role in bringing back the developmental issues to focus. Nearing the end of the stipulated time when they had to be achieved and standing at the edge of establishing the Sustainable development goals, we must comprehend the limitations of the MDGs and formulate SDGs in a way that it overcomes them. This paper is an attempt to observe the trends that the major indicators for health and urbanisation had followed after the MDGs had been established. One of the major issues which is clearly seen in the background of the achievement of targets to reach MDG goals and which must be addressed immediately in the developing countries is: increasing rural-urban and rich-poor gap in these countries. Inclusive growth as a target in the upcoming SDGs does give some hope, however, it must be taken care that the SDGs are not reduced to simply achieving some numbers but they broaden the development narrative beyond the narrow growth perspective.