Global development - and global team work - are key to humanity's prosperity | Jacob J Lew, Luis Videgaray Caso and Sufian Ahmed

More and more people have safe drinking water, economic security and better health. We must keep moving forward

The past 15 years have yielded unprecedented gains in the fight against extreme poverty and hunger, with emerging economies heralding record economic growth.

The number of people living in extreme poverty is half of what it was in 1990, as is the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water. More than 3m deaths from malaria have been averted since 2000. Women's labor force participation has jumped significantly. And technological innovations - led by the increasingly ubiquitous mobile phone - have brought dramatic economic, social and financial opportunities to remote parts of the world.