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Development Progress

A five year research project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It aimed to measure, understand and communicate where and how development progress has happened.

10 big wins in global development
Over a billion people have escaped extreme poverty since 1990. Explore 10 examples of progress in health, education and human wellbeing.
Report and infographics
Projecting progress: reaching the SDGs by 2030
Read our reports highlighting the efforts needed to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Latin America and the Caribbean Asia-Pacific Sub-Saharan Africa
How to leave no one behind: a workable plan for ambitious aims
Leaving no one behind is now firmly at the top of the development agenda. But it will take a pragmatic approach to turn noble aims into reality.
The SDGs must leave no one behind: stories from Ghana
The Sustainable Development Goals, due to replace the Millennium Development Goals in January 2016, promise to 'leave no one behind'. This film looks at what it's like being part of a group that is being ‘left behind’.
Watch the film

Financing progress blog series (2013–2014, archived)

What works in development finance: a new blog series invites cutting edge commentary

Finance that empowers, that motivates and that provides global public goods

Tackling the ‘MICs traps’: a role for development cooperation in middle-income countries?

Financing progress independently: taxation and illicit flows

Financing progress in the post-2015 era: Why we need a Monterrey Plus conference

Changing the mindset on aid

From ‘graduation’ to ‘gradation’ in international development finance

What does the changing context of development finance mean for the post-2015 agenda? Some thoughts on our latest blog series

Private development assistance: a glimpse of the landscape

Development finance: Can it advance local ownership?

Can private sector finance support adaptation?

Post-2015 infrastructure finance: The new debt threat?

Financing progress in a changing context: The role of international NGOs in Africa

The shifting aid landscape: how civil-society investments strengthen local ownership of development

Getting smart with aid

How can business drive meaningful poverty alleviation?

The debate on development finance: new context, same questions?

DFID’s new aid strategy – the big silence

European development finance post-2015: public meets private?

Lessons on sustainable development finance from Tajikistan

Development at the crossroads: reflections from the Arab Region

Domestic resources and better governance

Asia must mind the gaps to secure its future

Our ambitious goals require a new model of development

Partnerships to finance the post-2015 development agenda

Who is going to pay for international development?