Staff writer
Industrialized and developing countries should increase cooperation to halve, possibly by 2015, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty on the African continent and to promote the effective integration of African economies into the global economy.
This will be the main point of the agenda for action to be adopted next month at the second Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD-II as the forthcoming ministerial conference is more commonly known.
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