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"Since it is not possible to comment on the variety of important issues this report raises – both positive and negative – it should be noted that it nevertheless exposes, albeit in qualified form, the negative performance of EU ‘development aid’.
Although it does not criticise how often development aid is used merely as a palliative, a (false) counterpart and condition for deregulating markets or as an instrument of interference – with well-known negative aims and effects, such as the EU’s ‘European Consensus’ on development, the Economic Partnership Agreements the EU intends to impose or financial speculation surrounding foodstuffs, which call into question the aims declared for development – the report not surprisingly highlights the inadequate results of ‘development aid’ and its significant reduction in the EU: 0.38% in 2007 compared to 0.41% in 2006, well below the 0.7% of GDP indicated by the UNO.
The report also sounds a note of caution against the growing use of ‘development aid’ for purposes that have nothing to do with development (such as military spending), and against the fact that it is ‘often disbursed according to donors’ own priorities and timetables’."@en1
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