Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) drive and provide a common framework for the international development community, to guide our policies and programmes and to assess our effectiveness (www.oecd.org/dac/mdg).

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Making Poverty Reduction Work: OECD’s Role in Development Partnership

21-Sep-2005

Contributing to global development is a key objective of the OECD as an intergovernmental agency and through its collective membership. What does the OECD bring to the international effort to achieve the international goals? Read the executive summary or the full report transmitted to the UN General Assembly Summit of 2005, as well as other international meetings related to development.

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The recent history of the world’s second largest continent has been plagued by internal conflict, famine and disease. But recent economic prospects for Africa are looking more favourable than they have for a number of years...

OECD Observer articles on the Millennium Development Goals