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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would first like to congratulate Mr Goerens on his excellent report.
The Agenda for Change is an important roadmap for redefining development cooperation and for striving for better quality and effectiveness of aid, particularly in view of current changes in the new world order, the emergence of new international actors and the necessary process of fiscal consolidation into which we are forced by our current economic situation.
We are pleased that the Commission is making poverty a core element of its differentiation policy. However, we deplore the fact that gross national income has been adopted as the key indicator for implementation of that policy.
Mr President, 70 % of the people in this world whose income is below the poverty threshold live in middle-income countries. If we want to have a real impact on reducing this poverty, we need to take into account, in addition to wealth, other criteria such as the vulnerability of some of those countries, the lack of internal cohesion or the human development indicator.
Many of these countries could also be key players today through triangular or South-South cooperation mechanisms, not to mention drivers of development for the future."@en1
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