{"id":8336,"date":"2012-02-26T02:34:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/world-bank-top-job-should-be-open-to-all-s-africas-gordhan\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:34:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:17","slug":"world-bank-top-job-should-be-open-to-all-s-africas-gordhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/world-bank-top-job-should-be-open-to-all-s-africas-gordhan\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank top job should be open to all-S.Africa&#8217;s Gordhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MEXICO CITY<\/span> Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; The tradition of<br \/>\nautomatically giving the World Bank presidency to an American is<br \/>\noutdated, although the country should be free to put forward a<br \/>\ncandidate, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on<br \/>\nSaturday on the sidelines of the G20 meeting.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The World Bank presidency should be open to all<br \/>\nnationalities and based on merit,&#8221; Gordhan told Reuters. &#8220;It is<br \/>\ntime we break the traditions of the U.S. and Europe sharing the<br \/>\ntwo seats (for the heads of the IMF and World Bank) and amongst<br \/>\nall of us we must try harder this time to find some consensus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting By Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; The tradition of automatically giving the World Bank presidency to an American is outdated, although the country should be free to put forward a candidate, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 meeting. &#8220;The World Bank presidency should be open to [&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-8336","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\/8336","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=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}