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Why do the Millennium Development Goals matter?

22-Dec-2004

From the UN Secretary-General’s 2003 Report on Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

An International Perspective on Communication Strategies for the Millenium Development Goals

22-Dec-2004

This paper is premised on the notion that awareness-raising and communications about the MDGs in the industrialised countries are crucial in order to remind and hold national governments accountable to their aid, trade and debt commitments, which are found in the MDGs.

Policy coherence: Vital for global development

22-Dec-2004

Trade and investment, coupled with transfers of knowledge and technology and an appropriate institutional framework, have been major engines of global economic growth in developed and developing countries over the past 50 years.

Address by the Honourable Donald J.Johnston to UNCTAD XI, Sao Paulo, 16 June 2004

22-Dec-2004

Address by the Honourable Donald J. Johnston to the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 13-18 June 2004. 

Special study on aid in support of HIV/AIDS control

17-Jun-2004

This report presents the results of a review of statistical data on aid to HIV/AIDS control. Contribution prepared jointly by the Secretariat and UNAIDS for the XVth International AIDS Conference in Bangkok on 11-17 July 2004.


Events

Managing Water for All publication launch

on 17-Mar-2009

The OECD has released a new report – Managing Water for All: Pricing and Financing – at an event during the World Water Forum in Istanbul. Emphasising the economic, social and environmental benefits of investing in water and sanitation, the report includes information about the agricultural uses of water, financing water supply and sanitation, water pricing, private sector participation in the water sector and aid flows to water.



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OECD Observer articles on the Millennium Development Goals