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| The Next World Bank President ? |
With a few days to go in the election of a new World Bank President, the former Colombian finance minister, Jose Antonio Ocampo, has withdrawn his nomination for the institution’s presidency in an agreement among emerging and developing countries to coalesce around one nominee, sources told Reuters.
With this development, the Nigerian Finance Minister and co-ordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is now the sole candidate from developing nations in a race against U.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American health expert who is seen as the favourite to win the race. Lets see how it goes...
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