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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Perpetuating the poverty cycle
Paul Hazebroek, at Radio Netherlands, who had just arrived back from Mauritania where he interviewed impoverished Africans who were about to risk their lives sailing to the Canary Islands in leaky canoes - in search of a better life - makes interesting (and, I fear, correct) observations on the fact that EU countries "quite capable of paying their own way" get millions of euros in handouts and asks, "How many schools could have been built in sub-Saharan countries with that money, how many subsistence farmers could have bought themselves a piece of land, how many people could have got a small business off the ground with a little micro-credit?"
Perpetuating the poverty cycle
