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"Madam President, I am very grateful for the honourable Member’s intervention. I said to the House that handouts will not simply alleviate poverty.
Of course, I support the Millennium Development Goals and I applaud the Conservative government which, while having to cut our national budget by something like 30%, including our school budget, has ring-fenced and increased our development assistance budget by 27%.
I am very grateful to Mr Howitt for enabling me to air this extraordinary act of consistency and generosity on the part of the coalition government in London.
But even by increasing the budget by 27%, and even if we reach the Millennium Development Goals, we are not going to eliminate poverty in Africa until we help Africans to grow wealthier.
Europe did not become what it is today just by eliminating poverty and living at subsistence level. It grew rich by creating wealth. Until we create wealth in Africa which can be retained and is not brought back, we will not succeed."@en1
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