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"There is a fundamental link between poverty and access to modern energy supply services. It would, however, be unrealistic to assume that we can effectively combat poverty with access to energy. In this context, one might consider the privatised water supply service in developing countries, which can easily lead to a situation where the poor cannot afford water. This problem should not be ignored when it comes to electricity, which replaces conventional fuels such as gathered wood, etc. Nonetheless, improved energy supply can lead to economic growth and thus reduce poverty by creating new jobs. If we continue in the same way with the reforms in the energy sector that we have been pursuing for almost three decades now, then 67% of the population will still have no electricity by 2015. To date, progress has only been made in this regard in a small number of developing countries. Since supplying energy to the poor is not a profitable business, private investors have only improved energy supply to the productive and commercial sectors. This is something that will only change through the appropriate subsidies. As the report is extremely critical of this, I have voted in favour of it."@en1
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