World Bank hopes Japan will play bigger role in aid to poor countries

World Bank hopes Japan will play bigger role in aid to poor countries

TOKYO, Japan - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a World Bank managing director, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo's Yurakucho on Nov. 5, 2009. The former Nigerian finance minister headed a high-level mission of the World Bank group to Japan to meet officials of the new government, launched in mid-September.

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