{"id":14067,"date":"2012-08-31T03:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/world-bank-chief-heads-to-africa-in-first-overseas-visit\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T03:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:29:23","slug":"world-bank-chief-heads-to-africa-in-first-overseas-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/world-bank-chief-heads-to-africa-in-first-overseas-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank chief heads to Africa in first overseas visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* New World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim heads to Africa<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* First trip to Ivory Coast and South Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Focus on growth, jobs, business and regional development<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; New World Bank President Jim<br \/>\nYong Kim heads to the Ivory Coast and South Africa next week on<br \/>\nhis first trip to Africa since taking the reins of the global<br \/>\ndevelopment lender two months ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The visit comes at a time when African economies are among<br \/>\nthe fastest growing in the world although their development is<br \/>\nconstrained by shortages of roads, ports, power supply, water<br \/>\nand sanitation. Despite high rates of growth, rising youth<br \/>\nunemployment and inequality are a growing concern.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Africa is truly taking off and I look forward to hearing<br \/>\ndirectly from governments and people on the continent on how the<br \/>\nBank can help drive more inclusive development throughout<br \/>\nAfrica,&#8221; Kim said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During his trip to the Ivory Coast, starting on Tuesday, Kim<br \/>\nwill meet President Alassane Ouattara and his economic team,<br \/>\nwhich have managed to turn around a stagnant economy within a<br \/>\nyear since the end of a civil war that claimed more than 3,000<br \/>\nlives. The government has launched several major infrastructure<br \/>\nprojects and restored security across most of the cocoa-growing<br \/>\ncountry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He will also visit an industrial park for small and<br \/>\nmedium-sized agribusinesses, which will highlight the push for<br \/>\nmore investment in agriculture amid increasing volatility in<br \/>\nfood prices.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* New World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim heads to Africa * First trip to Ivory Coast and South Africa * Focus on growth, jobs, business and regional development By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; New World Bank President Jim Yong Kim heads to the Ivory Coast and South Africa next week on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}