The United Nations is undertaking a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals that will be used to target international development assistance during the post-Millennium Development Goal period of 2015–2030.

The World Council of Credit Unions said it is promoting the idea that financial inclusion will be among those goals.

Earlier this month, at separate U.N. events in New York City and Washington, D.C., Peter Graves, World Council's SVP of technical services, cited credit union development in high-income countries, including the U.S., Canada and Australia, to show how credit unions have helped generate greater income growth and job creation across a broader spectrum of the population than in societies without them.

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