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Chancellor Gordon Brown announces that the coming year presents a once-in-a-generation chance to finally provide proper foreign aid and debt relief to the poorer countries as the British government will take on the presidency of the G8 and the EU in 2005. His laudable but paltry goal of persuading all rich countries to provide 0.7% of their GDPs This comes on the same day that several charities and unions join together under the banner "Make Poverty History" - and all this amidst the unfolding disaster of the tsunami which inundated the South Asian coast causing death and displacement on a huge scale. It all seems rather shamefully pathetic.

The Guardian; Wednesday 29/12/04

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