Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Overview -- Part I. Monitoring global development progress -- Development progress over the MDG period has been impressive -- Despite solid development gains, significant work remains -- Amid an uncertain outlook, stronger effort is needed to grow, invest, and insure -- Evolving circumstances demand a new approach-enter the SDGs -- Part II. Development in an era of demographic change -- Global demography is at a turning point -- Demographic change may alter the trajectory of global development -- Effective policies can leverage demographic change within countries -- Opportunities exist to arbitrage demographic diversity across countries -- References -- Part I: Monitoring Global Development Progress -- Chapter 1 Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies -- Extreme poverty: Updated numbers and remaining challenges -- Shared prosperity: Conceptual issues and recent trends -- Ending extreme poverty and sharing prosperity: Policy agenda -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Scaling Up Impact: Transitioning from Millennium to Sustainable Development Goals -- The Millennium Development Goals: Current status -- The Sustainable Development Goals: A new approach -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Global Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook: Prospects for Growth -- Recent developments and short- and medium-term prospects -- Update on recent macroeconomic policies -- Quality of macroeconomic policies in low-income countries -- Long-term convergence and growth trends -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Development in an Era of Demographic Change -- Chapter 4 Demographic Change: Disparities, Divergences, and Drivers -- Characteristics of demographic change -- Drivers of demographic change -- Conclusion.

Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Implications of Demographic Change: Pathways to Prosperity -- From demography to development: A global typology -- Challenging starting points -- Pathways to future prosperity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Policy Priorities in an Era of Demographic Change -- Leveraging demographic change within countries -- Leveraging demographic differences across countries -- Conclusion -- Country Spotlights: Policy challenges at different stages of demographic transition -- Notes -- References -- Appendixes -- A. Millennium Development Goals Report Card -- B. The Role of Multilateral Development Banks: From MDGs to SDGs -- C. Data sources -- D. Methodology -- Boxes -- O.1 Drawing global poverty lines -- 1.1 Global poverty estimates based on 2011 PPP data: Methods and challenges -- 1.2 Why poverty in India could be even lower -- 1.3 Person-equivalent poverty: An intuitive headcount measure that controls for depth -- 1.4 Poverty in Latin America: Income-based versus consumption-based estimates -- 1.5 Multidimensional poverty measurement: E pluribus unum? -- 1.6 The Multidimensional Poverty Index: An example -- 1.7 Back to "Basics": McNamara's prescient 1972 speech on shared prosperity -- 1.8 Who is in the B40? -- 1.9 Chile's growth-with-equity approach -- 2.1 The MDG process has played a generally positive role in supporting development -- 2.2 What is the relationship between the World Bank Group's goals and the SDGs? -- 2.3 What gets measured gets done: The importance of data -- 2.4 Mobilizing financing for development -- 3.1 The effects of demographic factors on potential output -- 4.1 Accuracy and uncertainty in population projections -- 4.2 The legacy of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on southern Africa's age structure -- 4.3 The demographic transition model -- 4.4 The economic benefits of gender equality.

4.5 Economic and demographic impact of child marriage -- 5.1 Changing concepts of dependency -- 5.2 Rapid urbanization presents a development challenge -- 5.3 Making the most out of demographic change -- 5.4 Funding the difference between consumption and production over the life cycle -- 5.5 Current demographic trends could lead to greater greenhouse gas emissions -- 6.1 The impact of demographic change on political economy -- 6.2 Pension system reform: The perspective of European countries -- 6.3 Migration and labor-market-policy reform in high-income countries -- 6.4 Environmental sustainability and demographics -- 6.5 Trade facilitation can help leverage demographic transition.