Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Africa Week: Discussion with Value Added in Africa

3:05 pm

Mr. Conall O'Caoimh:

It has a first foothold, and perhaps a discussion like this can help create awareness to help it access other retailers. We sold out of our stock at Africa Day. What happens is up to the market.

Population is a very important concern. People who are poor have more children in order to protect themselves against poverty and as people become richer they have fewer children. Having more children drives families into further poverty because resources have to be divided among a larger number of people. We need to break that vicious cycle, which can be done by helping people to move up the economic scale. Alongside health policy, economic policy has a major role to play.

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