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This paper argues that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may have played a role in increasing aid and that development policies beyond aid quantity have seen some limited improvement in rich countries. Further, there is some evidence of faster-than-expected progress improving quality of life in developing countries since the Millennium Declaration, but the contribution of the MDGs themselves in speeding that progress is—of course—difficult to demonstrate even assuming the MDGs induced policy changes after 2002.