In response to the four excellent commentaries on my article, I address several points including the significance of development finance, the problems of development data, and questions about how development goals are created and for whom. I also provide assessment of some more recent literature on the Sustainable Development Goals and consider the rise of neoliberal metrics and the changes in US international policy that affect development.
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