In a first-ever joint report by the UN, the OECD, the World Bank and the IMF, the world’s four principal development … international development address that most compelling of human desires-a world free of poverty and free of the misery that poverty …

Achieving the economic development of poor countries remains, even in the third millennium, a formidable challenge … which increasingly preoccupies OECD countries. The Organisation's Development Centre was founded in 1962 as one means to … study and to try to confront the problems of comparative development and to relate them to experiences in the more advanced …

In this 1996 report, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) set a number of measurable international … development goals. Subsequently, the commitment to halve world poverty became the focus of most donor organisations through the … Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Long central to UN programmes, this focus on poverty reduction became key to IMF and World …

"In 2011 the international development community committed to make development co-operation more effective to deliver … 2011 and the 2015 target date of the Millennium Development Goals, this report takes stock of how far we have come and …, changing political landscapes and domestic budgetary pressure, commitment to effective development co-operation principles …