4 Amendments of Joe HIGGINS related to 2009/2150(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes that the significant decrease in export revenues in developing countries is threatening to shatter the growth and development of the Southdeveloping countries, and in particular those which have been most integrated into the world economic market and opened their economies to international financial institutions, have been hit hardest by the economic crisis; calls on the Commission – when negotiating and implementing trade agreements, in particular the Economic Partnership Agreements – to strengthimplement EU Policy Coherence for Development and the promocreation of decent work and to ensure respect for the priorities of each country and adequate consultation of key actors and civil society;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is convinced that a fair and development-oriented conclusion of the Doha Round in 2010 could help the WTO in aiding the economic recovery from the crisis and continuing the fight against protectionism and couldreorientation of international trade towards full respect for people’s economic and social needs could more effectively contribute to poverty alleviation in developing countries, the creation of good-quality jobs and the reduction of consumer prices;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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4. Asks the Commission and Member States to support measures to ease developing countries’ access to credit, including the substUnderlines the need to cancel all debt of developing countries in order to foster sustainable development and to support access to credit through alternative, democratic and publicly owned finantcial capitalisation of multilateral development bankinstitutions that act in the interests of the social and economic emancipation of developing countries;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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5. WelcomNotes the Agreement on the Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP), a mechanism established by 22 developing countries to reduce tariffs and other barriers to the export of goods traded between them, in an attempt to boost South-South trade.