Globalisation is undermining developments efforts to reduce poverty, the Holy See’s representative to the UN told a key financing conference in Addis Ababa last week.
Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See, said some countries have “fallen further behind and may continue to do so unless the international community help them find solutions for what is constraining them”.
He was speaking in the Ethiopian capital to delegates at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.
“As Pope Francis said in his recent encyclical Laudato si’, development efforts cannot make significant progress if countries continue to emphasise their national interests to the detriment of the global common good,” he said.
“The solutions to global poverty and hunger cannot be left to market forces alone,” he continued. “To eradicate poverty and hunger, in particular extreme poverty and chronic hunger, the sharing of science and technology, the acceptance of ethical values like solidarity and social justice to influence the market, and joint political will must all align themselves.”
He concluded, he said: “A supportive international economic environment must undergird development strategies, in the spirit of global partnership, shared prosperity and intergenerational solidarity.”
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