This “global special issue” is a unique opportunity for accelerated input from an entire field. We bring not one but a whole series of peer-reviewed journals to the theme, each journal with its own, complementary focus on the Millennium Development Goals in general, and poverty reduction in particular. The journals represent psychology from low-income, transition and OECD economies.
Their outputs are coordinated in a temporal sense. Each journal will release its contribution in mid 2010. Each journal will publish either a special section of papers, or an entire issue of the journal, on the poverty reduction theme.

These are the peer-reviewed journals participating in the initiative:

• Psychology and Developing Societies
• The Journal of Psychology in Africa
• The Interamerican Journal of Psychology
• Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
• International Journal of Psychology
• Applied Psychology: An International Review
• American Psychologist
• Journal of Managerial Psychology
• Journal of Health Psychology
• New Zealand Journal of Psychology
• The Australian Psychologist

Each journal will make its own individual call for contributions, according to its own policies and procedures. Development and policy development agencies, such as the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, will be notified about the global special issue. It is expected that the special issue will make a significant contribution to the work of those agencies, and the people they serve.