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World Service,23 Aug 2011,18 mins

Nigeria's new finance minister: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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Nigeria's new finance minister says she has been threatened by 'vested interests'. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former World Bank managing director, tells Lesley Curwen that she is not the type of person who is easily cowed by threats. Plus Nick Crofts from Melbourne's Nossal Institute for Global Health argues that development agencies are not working closely enough with anti-drugs agencies to end the cycle of drug use, poverty and conflict. And from Jakarta, the BBC's Karishma Vaswani looks at the trade dispute over abattoir conditions which paralysed Australian beef exports to Indonesia.

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