Wow, what an ambition !
OK let's tune into primarily EU stuff [although the US may be an even worse offender]
Firstly poverty cannot be stopped by aid. It can help a little, but does have the disadvantage of creating a patient..... Oxfam found that out years ago , and now [most ?] its aid is in creating infrastructure for wealh to flow from .
A poor country has to be able to stand on it's own feet and create wealth, from there more will flow.
if we look at what a very poor country has- well, mineral wealth ? Maybe...
Labour - yes
Farmland - yes
It's extremely simplistic, but a VERY poor country needs to be able to use its natural resources , its labour+ land to sell its produce to the world.
Then we have the EU + the US stopping it doing so and instead we spend loads giving aid on one hand and on the other paying for us to stop buying cheap produce [ indirectly I know, but making EU produce cheaper than Africa can make it is the same thing- and flogging off that produce to world markets as well is a doubly whammy to those countries]
It is a no -brainer, it really is.
Pity that France could be considered the same isn't it ?
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