If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the turn of the millennium, the United Nations set a list of eight Millennium Development Goals, to be accomplished over 2001-15. In 2015 it will pick a new slate of goals. Nancy Stokey, the Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, assesses the success in accomplishing the first set of goals and discusses some of the issues in choosing the next set.