KONRAD RAISER

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) had proposed International Development Goal Benchmarks for donor organizations which was then officially endorsed by the World Bank, the IMF and the UN. But many people thought that many of these “benchmarks” were not only invalid but exacerbated some of the problems that they were trying to fix—especially in a developing country where structural factors inhibited class mobility and the focus was on large businesses and not small and “mom & pop” enterprises that poor could aspire to and benefit from.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) had proposed International Development Goal Benchmarks for donor organizations which was then officially endorsed by the World Bank, the IMF and the UN. But many people thought that many of these “benchmarks” were not only invalid but exacerbated some of the problems that they were trying to fix—especially in a developing country where structural factors inhibited class mobility and the focus was on large businesses and not small and “mom & pop” enterprises that poor could aspire to and benefit from.