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It is our duty and in our interest to promote better living conditions throughout the world. A noteworthy series of initiatives to fight poverty was put in place a number of years ago, but it did not even fulfil the lowest of expectations, let alone produce the results that one would have wished to see. There are countries and regions in the world where that fight has borne some fruit, not because poverty has been eliminated – far from it – but because it has emerged that they are moving in the right direction, and this is true of parts of Asia and Latin America. Unfortunately, this is the exception rather than the rule in Africa, where we must redouble our efforts, but where those efforts must be reciprocated locally. It is impossible to help those who do not allow their people to be helped, those who harm their people, those who foment the causes of poverty, not least corruption. I therefore feel that EU-backed initiatives must attach the fight against poverty to the fight to create conditions for local development, by promoting democracy, freedom, human rights and a market economy. Handing out money – or writing off debts – does not go far enough, and nor is it always the right way forward. We must do and achieve more and, above all, better."@en1
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