This Teaching Paper reviews six cornerstone documents that have shaped the evolution of modern international development policy and practice: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Together, these documents form the normative and institutional backbone of the global development system, defining shared objectives, accountability mechanisms, and guiding principles for state and non-state actors.
Anna Neya Kazanskaia (Wed,) studied this question.