Less than six weeks before he steps down as secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has come up with a political scorecard on the successes and failures of the UN's much-touted development agenda. The good news is that official development assistance (ODA) -- from rich to poor countries -- is reaching a new high, breaking through the 100-billion-dollar barrier: up from an average of about 50 to 55 billion dollars in the 1980s.