Traduction de «gens à petits revenus » (Français → Anglais) :

The problem was that anyone, from university students to whomever — and I am not saying that students are not solvent —, could borrow, but it remains that when people have very limited income, someone gets stuck with the loss.

Are there any studies that show that a decrease in capital gains taxes redounds not only to fat cats but to middle-income people and even lower-income people?

Very big investors, wealthy investors, tend not to use mutual funds, except perhaps as a piece of their portfolio, whereas there are people earning modest incomes and doing modest jobs who may put their life savings into mutual funds.

Observes that agricultural investment policies mostly focus on large-scale land acquisitions and on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; notes that the development of extensive irrigation in the targeted geographical investment areas of NAFSN may reduce water availability for other users, such as small-scale farmers or pastoralists; stresses that under those circumstances the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security must be critically assessed and improved; emphasises that agricultural investment policies should be linked to and should support the development of the ...[+++] local economy, including smallholders and family farming; recalls that the FAO Tenure Guidelines recommend secure access to land in order to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land-based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholders’ and local communities’ access to land, promoting local SME investment. and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality.

Accordingly, in the future, the GSP should focus on the countries most in need, such as the LDCs and the most vulnerable developing countries (small economies, land-locked countries, small island states, and low income countries) in order to help them play a greater role in international trade.

I am convinced that this motion, under its present form, as the member explained in his speech, is aimed at helping people with low incomes, people who are not well off.