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"en.20121025.26.4-337-750"2
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The world is evolving at lightning speed if we look at the demographic changes: in less than 10 years the earth’s population has grown by 1 billion, and could reach 9 billion by 2030. However, the more rapid growth in the global population is smothering the slower economic growth. The phenomenon of globalisation is contributing to this, and while the forces and powers between states are balancing out, the chasms within countries between the rich and the poor is becoming ever deeper. This is best illustrated by the development of Brazil, China and India. The changes underway in Africa are promising; a growing number of countries are holding free elections and are more open to the principle of political rotation. The African Union is devoting significant efforts to managing problems at regional level, but it already appears that the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 will not be accomplished by 2015. Europe, then, as the largest sponsor of the ‘Agenda for Change’ programme, is obliged to accelerate the implementation of the programme and enhance its efficiency. This is because the most pressing problem for some emerging markets is not producing goods but distributing them fairly. The five main objectives in the proposal are principally aimed at supporting the fight against poverty, in view of the new players such as China and India, or new phenomena like the extremely high birth rates."@en1
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