Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-30-Speech-4-031"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:World hunger and the elimination of barriers to trade with the poorest countries2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030130.1.4-031"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-30-Speech-4-0322
lpv:speaker	lp:Anna Karamanou2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-03-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is a sad day when you realise that, after fifty years of development aid, not one country has escaped the underdevelopment and poverty trap. Many maintain that globalisation is the root cause of the state of the economy in the poorest countries. The truth is that the North’s protectionist policy has helped to strangle crucial sectors in the South. The contention that poor countries can achieve the same levels of income as rich countries without international trade, without incoming capital and investment, is quite simply nonsense. If the poor countries make do with what is in their coffers or wait to develop their own technological capabilities, it will take them forever. There is no such thing as true progress in a society where few become richer and many become poorer. Hunger and abject poverty mainly affect women, making sexual inequality a huge barrier to development. Over the last decade, the number of women living in absolute poverty has risen. This is linked to reproductive health problems, because it is the poorest women that have the least access to health services and the most unwanted babies. Nearly all of the half a million women who die from maternity-related causes live in the underdeveloped world and they die, not because they decided to become mothers, but because they are poor. The probability of a woman dying in these circumstances is less than one in three thousand in the developed world, compared to one in nineteen in Africa. These figures prove that the benefits of globalisation have still not reached that many people. Continuing poverty is holding back this process through open trade. The only solution is to overcome our two main enemies: the resistance of numerous political leaders in the North, who refuse to tear down barriers to the free movement of goods and people, and the resistance of numerous political leaders in the South, who refuse to give their people basic political, economic and human rights, without which there can be no development."@en1

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