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Ngozi Okonjo-Iwalea, Managing Director of the World Bank

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At the World Bank office in Paris, Raphael Kahane met Ngozi Okonjo-Iwalea, Managing Director of the institution. They discussed about the theft of public assets, and the estimated cost of corruption to poor countries and to African countries.

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