14/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Caroline Lucas MEP (Greens, Britain) has published a joint report with economist Colin Hines, and Candana Shiva from India, calling for fair trade. The report affirms that the campaign launched by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown with the slogan “Make Poverty history”, caused the public to mistakenly believe that free trade could hep poor countries “find the way to prosperity via exports”. In a press release, Caroline Lucas said that the most recent UN report on less developed countries clearly shows that these countries had increased their exports but this rarely translated into a substantial and sustained decrease in poverty.