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U.S.'s Business Leaders Advance an Action Plan to Reduce Extreme Global Poverty

Posted on July 17, 2006
Previously filed under: General Globalization
The Initiative for Global Development begins it's National Summit with speeches from Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell.
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