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At the forefront of international development efforts are the United Nations, World Bank , and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). These organizations coordinate their development activities with NGOs, private and corporate foundations, and foreign assistance agencies of developed countries. Recently, these efforts have focused on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015. The MDGs form a blueprint for development agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
As UN and World Bank development officials, including their country teams, have pursued the MDGs, they have become increasingly concerned about fighting corruption at the national level in the management of development aid and social development and enlisting the support of many of the transnational corporations who do business in developing countries. Thus, anti-corruption and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are becoming an integral part of the international development agenda. As the UN, World Bank and their non-governmental partners lead the international development agenda, the issue of global governance-- its nature and affect on national sovereignty—needs increased attention.
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