Asia’s future development agenda: looking beyond 2015 at unfinished tasks and emerging threats

Ending Asian deprivations will take us beyond 2015 The global development community is beginning to grapple with the issue of what will happen in 2015 – the target year for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As far as Asia is concerned, although much will have been achieved by 2015, much more will remain to be done, and the magnitude of remaining deprivations will be staggering.