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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have had unprecedented success in drawing attention to poverty as an urgent global priority. But the narrow emphasis has also led to detracting attention from other important priorities and has simplified development policy debates. This paper reflects on the narrative of development that the MDGs have created. The author argues that after 2015, a new set of goals should be launched to recapture the development narrative as articulate in the 2000 Millennium Declaration through inclusive globalization, that could be expressed as "human development", or as "sustainable, equitable and human rights-based development".