Jim Yong Kim, a US health expert, is chosen to take over as the new president of the World Bank, after a challenge from Nigeria’s finance minister.
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US choice is new World Bank chief
The World Bank’s new president, Jim Yong Kim, says that capitalist make t-based growth is a priority for all countries.
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World Bank boss sets priorities
The World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College’s president, as its new chief on Monday after an unprecedented competition against nominees from Nigeria and Colombia. In a statement Monday afternoon, the bank board said it had chosen Kim as the institution’s 12th president to succeed Robert Zoellick when his five-year term ends in June. Read full article > >
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Jim Yong Kim named World Bank president
Colombia’s Jose Antonio Ocampo pulls out of the race to be the next World Bank president, calling the selection process a “political exercise”.
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Colombian out of World Bank race
Barack Obama has revealed his nomination for the new head of the World Bank. He is a Korean-born American academic called Jim Yong Kim, who has a sideline in musical performance, as John McManus reports.
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The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College and a global health expert, as its nominee to lead the World Bank.
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Dartmouth President Is Obama’s Pick for World Bank
President Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a move that would turn the organization over to a physician and development expert as opposed to the bankers, corporate leaders and political officials who have run it since its founding. Read full article > >
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Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank
No one in Russia was in doubt about the outcome of Sunday’s presidential election. Vladimir Putin’s triumph was assumed. But there is feverish speculation, and great uncertainty, about what will happen beginning Monday, when Putin prepares to begin a new six-year term. The question of the moment in Moscow is: How long will he last? Read full article > >
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The end of Putinism
BEIJING — China will face increasing challenges to sustain growth over the next two decades without substantial, structural changes to its economy, financial system and society, according to a voluminous report presented here Monday by the World Bank and one of China’s main government research units. Read full article > >
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Change fundamental for China’s future growth, report says
The World Bank on Tuesday announced that President Robert Zoellick would step down when his five-year term expires in June, triggering questions about where the longtime Republican stalwart will end up next and who will replace him at the international financing institution. Read full article > >
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Questions grow over who will replace World Bank chief Robert Zoellick
The World Bank on Tuesday announced that President Robert Zoellick would step down when his five-year term expires in June, triggering questions about where the longtime Republican stalwart will end up next and who will replace him at the international financing institution. Read full article > >
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World Bank chief Robert Zoellick to step down in June
The World Bank on Tuesday announced that President Robert Zoellick would step down when his five-year term expires in June, triggering questions about where the longtime Republican stalwart will end up next and who will replace him at the international financing institution. Read full article > >
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World Bank chief Robert Zoellick to step down in June
KABUL — The World Bank warned Tuesday that any abrupt cut in foreign aid to Afghanistan over the next several years could destabilize the country and prevent the government from providing basic services and paying for its soldiers and police. Concern has been growing in Kabul about how the Afghan economy will weather the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops starting this year and adjust to lower levels of the foreign aid that now props up the state. This year, Afghanistan received $15.7 billion in aid, most of it from the United States — an amount that accounts for 92 percent of all public spending. Read full article > >
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Afghanistan to need billions in aid for years, World Bank says
Growth in the developing economies of East Asia is moderating because of weakening external demand, said the World Bank in a report.
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Weak demand hits Asian economies
“We are back in a danger zone,” says a top economist at the International Monetary Fund. Though an understatement, it captures the central paradox of this year’s annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank . Everyone is alarmed at the swift deterioration of the economic outlook, but there is no leadership — no consensus on what to do or, even when crude agreement exists, little conviction that practical politics will permit action. There is a hazardous vacuum of ideas and power. Read full article > >
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Repeating mistakes of the 1930s
Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Questions grow over who will replace World Bank chief Robert Zoellick
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Afghanistan to need billions in aid for years, World Bank says
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