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"Madam President, I am pleased to see that this report, which has been done so well by my colleague and friend, Michael Cashman, addresses several serious deficiencies in the Cotonou Agreement. It does so notably by addressing the issue of MDGs, hence correcting what was a lacuna.
However, we have to look at what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. Some Sub-Saharan African countries have made extraordinary progress and others have not. The ones that have done so, like Burkina Faso, have made their budget focuses health, agriculture and education, and are making considerable progress faster. By 2015, half the people living in poverty will be concentrated in fragile states. Of the 47 fragile states, 28 are in Africa – and I have seen very little poverty reduction there. We will need to refocus development efforts to meet this growing challenge.
Today, aid for trade comprises almost a third of ODA, yet fragile states suffer from chronic trade deficits and are increasingly locked out of international trade. With this in mind, it is unacceptable that distribution does not address adequately the importance of trade and investment for development. We have see emerging economic powerhouses like Brazil and South Africa dismantling trade barriers and reaping the rewards. Undeniably, trade is a driver of growth and requires the right conditions in which to flourish; this is an issue that is again disturbingly absent from our revision. So, may I ask the Commissioner to look at distribution again, but with a trade focus, because that is how to get people out of poverty."@en1
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