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Its focal point is an ongoing and expanding series of electronic Development Dialogues on key issues and challenges facing the development community and the world's poor, with a particular emphasis on learning from the experience of those who face these challenges in their daily lives. They distill the experience of many years, expressed in the resolutions of major United Nations conferences. The goals have been adopted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other agencies. The goals measure progress from 1990 and look to what can be accomplished by 2015. This site contains a list of NBER working papers on this subject.