"The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) brings together 34 democracies of Europe, North and Latin America and the Pacific. The primary purpose of the OECD is to provide a forum to discuss and identify compatible, mutually supporting, constructive approaches to economic and social issues to ensure sustainable economic growth, and to provide employment and rising standards of living for its own populations, and those of the international community as a whole." (Quoted from article)