The purpose of this thesis is to study to what extent the UN millennium development goals have influenced Sweden’s development policy. The research method that I have used is a qualitative text analysis and I have studied the ideas in governmental texts and millennium development goals reports from 1995-2008.My hypothesis is that the basic ideas that has symbolized Sweden’s development policy has not changed much since the adoption of the millennium development goals in year 2000. This hypothesis is based on different ideas that the basic perspectives in international development policy are rather constant.My conclusion is that many of the areas that are affected by the millennium development goals already are prioritized areas within Swedish development policy, for example poverty reduction and gender equality. Therefore are these areas not influenced so much by the millennium development goals. A slightly stronger focus on international co-operation and sustainable development can be seen in the more recent material, where it’s possible that the millennium development goals have had some impact of this.