11.   It is a proposal which would still leave small countries, and especially poor countries, with a requirement to export wastes.

12.   Last year the Guardian joined forces with the international campaign to free poor countries from debt.

13.   Many poor countries are saddled with huge debts.

14.   Many poor countries neglect their national parks.

15.   People who live in poor countries have a much lower life expectancy.

16.   Poor countries exporting to the industrialised world face tariffs four times as high as those facing rich countries.

17.   The prices are still too high to allow more than a small number of people in desperately poor countries to be treated.

18.   There is a gaping loophole in the ban on arms sales to poor countries.

19.   Thus, it leaves room for poor countries with well-distributed resources and rich countries with concentrated resource distributions.

20.   Today most of the women in poor countries work the land.