Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-12-Speech-2-058"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050412.7.2-058"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-12-Speech-2-0592
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it goes without saying that no one in their right minds would object to something actually being done in order to structurally reduce global poverty and hunger by 2015. In order to actually achieve this, we will need to look beyond the present report’s unilateral measures, and, above all, to admit that massive development aid of the past 30 years has in the final analysis, all things considered, had very little impact. For example, what destroyed the favourable infrastructural and trade position in black Africa in the sixties was general corruption, ethnic conflicts and the devastating ideological hair-splitting on the part of the ruling elites. Why is it, for example, that Zimbabwe, in a matter of a few decades, has been transformed from the granary and storehouse of the whole of southern Africa into a land ravaged by terrible starvation? We should therefore have the courage to spell out the two major obstacles to lasting development of the poor countries; they are corruption and bad governance, and they are hardly our fault."@en1

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