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Race over, blog bows out. Until next time 23 Apr 2012 | 04:17 am
With the dust settling after the first contested World Bank Presidential selection process, this blog will be bowing out. We hope we’ve added some transparency to a pretty intransparent process, and w...
More Reactions 18 Apr 2012 | 03:04 pm
LA Times: Africa calls for World Bank reform after Nigerian denied top post Financial Times: Africa presses for World Bank reform Bloomberg: Emerging-Market Drift From World Bank Set to Test Incom...
Some Reactions 17 Apr 2012 | 12:15 pm
AFP: Nigeria World Bank candidate salutes Kim, calls for change FT: World Bank picks Kim as next head Economist: Kim for president The Atlantic: Shocking News About the Next World Bank Boss BBC: A...
Jim Yong Kim’s statement after his appointment 17 Apr 2012 | 11:19 am
From Lima, Jim Kim has been gracious and forward-looking in his official statement after his appointment was announced. Let’s hope that the owners and the World Bank’s board will not again waste five...
Oxfam sums it up 17 Apr 2012 | 07:47 am
Oxfam’s Elizabeth Stuart said: “Dr. Kim is an excellent choice for World Bank president and a true development hero. But we’ll never know if he was the best candidate for the job, because there was...
Kim crowned World Bank president 17 Apr 2012 | 05:11 am
The press are now running the story. Kim is the new president of the World Bank. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/business/global/world-bank-officially-selects-kim-as-president.html
Why Jim Kim should consider resigning as World Bank president-designate 17 Apr 2012 | 03:40 am
The situation for the many constituencies hopeful about Jim Yong Kim’s ‘election’ as World Bank president is comparable to early 2009. Recall, Barack Obama entered a US presidency suffering instituti...
Ngozi concedes? 17 Apr 2012 | 03:29 am
With hours to go to the announcement Ngozi has just told the press that “You know this thing is not really being decided on merit. It is voting with political weight and shares, and therefore the Unit...
Final Hours; or The Progressive’s Dilemma 17 Apr 2012 | 12:58 am
Well folks today is the day. It seems that the unnamed “A Bank Insider,” the most frequent poster to this blog, has taken off the gloves, with his declaration — not even couched as a prediction — tha...
South Africa expresses “serious concerns” about World Bank process 17 Apr 2012 | 12:16 am
FT reports that “South Africa on Monday expressed serious concerns about the transparency of the process to select the next head of the World Bank” Pravin Gordhan, South Africa’s finance minister tol...
