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Japan carried out an important role in the process of establishing the MDGs. In the OECD-DAC's groundwork for a new development strategy "International Development Goals (IDGs)", which became the direct foundation for the MDGs, Japan asserted that quantitative targets should be set for development results. Japan also stressed that the details of said targets (1) be objective and feasible, and that consideration be paid so that the targets can be accepted by both the assisting country and recipient country; (2) require ownership by developing countries; and (3) be quantified economic targets, but also that quantifiable social targets such as for reducing the child mortality rate be included as well. As a result of Japan's efforts, these points were reflected in the IDGs and also included in the MDGs that were later drafted by the United Nations.